Supporters of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud countered that the constitutional process was about state building rather than political change despite evidence to the contrary...

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's federal government was slow to respond to the starvation emergency in 2023 but eventually appointed a presidential envoy (AC Vol 63 No 16 Food crisis deepens as world looks to Ukraine)...

* After the UAE and Saudi Arabia clashed in South Yemen at the end of December both stepped up support for rival factions in Sudan and Somalia: Riyadh backing General Abdel Fattah Al Burhan's Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) in Khartoum and Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's government in Mogadishu while Abu Dhabi backs the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) under Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ‘Hemeti' which controls much of western Sudan and has lobbied for international recognition of Somaliland which broke away from Somalia in 1991...

Picking a fight with President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's government in Somalia would seem unnecessarily reckless for little gain – other than further ingratiating himself with Abu Dhabi...

Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and his federal government in Mogadishu previously reluctant to support the Dhulbahante claim for their own federal state pressured Puntland's President Said Abdullahi Deni and its sponsor the UAE...

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's federal government in Mogadishu is being targeted for security and governance failures by senior Republicans in the United States who want Washington to recognise the breakaway region of Somaliland...

Third there are the internal opponents of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud...

Fiqi was not backed up by Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud because the latter doesn't want any derogatory mention of the UAE by his ministers...

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has strengthened his position in the run-up to the presidential election next year by skilfully dividing the opposition...