Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed

Four of the top six were Islamists: Hassan; his predecessor Sharif Sheikh Ahmed from Tajamuc (aka Ala Sheikh); Abdirahman Moalin Baadiyo from a faction of Al Islaah; Abdulqadir Ossoble from Al Itisaam a continuation of Al Itahaad al Islamiya (AC Vol 42 No 22)...

Being an Abgal was in his favour: his clan claims to own Mogadishu and many thought an Abgal leader could help to prevent trouble in the capital – as long as it wasn’t his predecessor Sharif Sheikh Ahmed an Abgal/Harti...

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...

Anyone but Sharif Sheikh Ahmed In the first round Hassan Sheikh won the endorsement of the few MPs who had backed him in 2011 24 MPs mostly linked to Al Islaah...

Meles had last appeared in public on 26 June at a meeting with President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed of Somalia...

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

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...