Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed

UN Special Representative on Somalia Ahmedou Ould Abdallah’s enthusiasm for what he calls the new commitment to Somalia and the revamped transitional government under President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed is at odds with the UN’s reluctance to send its own peacekeepers to support the beleaguered AU force in Mogadishu...

The government of Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed protested on 18 January after a dozen Somali members of parliament and other officials were detained...

Ethiopia will also continue to support Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) under President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed as well as Ahlu Sunna wal Jamma a Sufi organisation which has mobilised religious and clan elements in central Somalia against extremist Wahabi-Salafi groups such as Al Shabaab and Hizbul Islam...

Kurta said that his US Joint Task Force provided logistical support and equipment to Somali troops being trained in Djibouti and in Uganda and the USA had sent two arms shipments to President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed through Mogadishu...

Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed's government which had already invited French troops to land to rescue their colleague increased its international 'moderate' credentials by welcoming Saleh Nabhan's killing...

Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed's TFG also Islamist constantly stresses that its own ambitions are purely national...

Ismail Mahmoud Mohamed was a friend of and former advisor to President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and they worked together within the Islamic Courts Union (ICU)...

Even before President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed of Somalia met United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the first leg of her seven-nation African tour Washington had made it clear it was ready to supply more assistance to his Transitional Federal Government (TFG)...

More than 200 people have been killed and over 50 000 people chased from their homes in this month's offensive by insurgents against President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed's regime in Mogadishu says the United Nations...

The return of Sheikh Hassan Dahir 'Aweys' to Mogadishu on 23 April may prove extremely dangerous for the shaky coalition government under Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed (AC Vol 50 No 4)...