Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan

Founding the South West State which includes Bay Bakool and Lower Shabelle and electing its President Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan in November was a second victory for supporters of federalism at home and abroad...

The experienced politico Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden a former Transitional Federal Government Speaker and Deputy Prime Minister under then President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed is the brain behind SW3 (AC Vol 55 No 3 New blood in old bottles)...

However it is not in favour of the leadership of this process considered to be controlled by former parliamentary Speaker Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden who has installed his brother as President (AC Vol 55 No 3 New blood in old bottles)...

One recent possible disruption for the international forces came when the new Defence Minister Mohamed Sheikh Hassan Hamud who is a close associate of one of Ethiopia's most important allies in Somalia Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden dropped invalids and veterans of the 1977 war against Ethiopia from the government payroll (AC Vol 55 No 3 New blood in old bottles)...

The not-so-new figure to enter the imbroglio was Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden (Rahenweyn) once Parliament Speaker then Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister after 2009's Djibouti agreement (AC Vol 54 No 18 Two cheers for the Juba deal)...

Leaders in these regions including former speaker of the Transitional Federal Government's Parliament Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden representing the historically weakest and most marginalised of Somalia's major clans had hoped to form a mega-state incorporating Bay and Bakool the three regions now composing the Juba administration and Lower Shabelle...

President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed criticised the committee because the then Speaker Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden (Rahenweyn/Ashraf) and Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali (Darod/Majerteen/Omar Mohamud) had chosen its 27 members...

Two other figures who are reluctant to bow out are Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and his political foe Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan...

Ethiopia’s intervention in Bay and Bakool may unleash further political complications if Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan the former and perhaps future Speaker of the Transitional Federal Parliament in Mogadishu endorses it...

Observers say Sharif was too busy competing with the Speaker of Parliament Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan to focus on the emergency...