Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed

The ICU then split: some members joined Al Shabaab while a group led by Sharif Sheikh Ahmed formed the Asmara-based Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia...

President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and Speaker Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan have been at loggerheads over Parliament’s confirmation of Sheikh Sharif’s choice of Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed and whether this should be by open or secret vote...

United States officials talk about bolstering Puntland and the semi-autonomous Somaliland but other Western officials are said to be studying which elelments of Al Shabaab might be open to negotiations to form yet another transitional regime in Mogadishu when the current regime under President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed finally collapses...

The accord is based on the Djibouti Agreement which brought President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed into the TFG early last year...

Meanwhile the SMG has uncovered links between businessmen close to Somalia’s President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and Al Shabaab...

In December President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed said no more than $3 mn...