Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed

On the political front in Mogadishu the successor to the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) whose mandate ends in August looks as if it will rely more on the skills and networks of President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed than on a new formula for a consensus that would unite all Somalis...

Sharif Sheikh Ahmed Ethiopia and Kenya have appointed new local administrations in the cities liberated from Al Shabaab with scant local consultation – each for their own reasons...

The President of the rickety TFG Sharif Sheikh Ahmed lacks serious regional let alone international endorsement and support...

East African states have several times backed Somalia’s President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed against Ethiopia...

It was a week before President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed came out against the Kenyan operation and threatened to sack his whole cabinet if it persisted in supporting Kenya...

The Kenyan military and intelligence agencies started building them up after Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed took over Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government in February 2009...

Initially Sharif Sheikh Ahmed supported the idea but he changed his mind...

The TFG President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has welcomed aid agencies to the half of his capital that he controls – thanks to 9 000 AU Mission in Somalia troops...

Museveni welcomed the International Contact Group on Somalia to Kampala on 2 June with the Transitional Federal Government President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed in attendance (see Somalia Feature)...

One Arab diplomat told Africa Confidential that Saudi Arabia used to give Somali President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed $250 000 a month in cash to cover his office’s operating expenses as well as other occasional payments...