Prominent politicians such as former President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and former prime ministers Mohamed Hussein Roble Hassan Ali Khaire and Abdi Farah Shirdon have influence within their clans and beyond but behaved more like presidential hopefuls than leaders with a national agenda...

Harti Abgal's leader is Sharif Sheikh Ahmed one of the most prominent of the leaders of the opposition...

The domestic foes range from Federal Member State presidents Said Abdullahi Deni (Puntland) and Ahmed Madobe (Jubaland) along with Mogadishu politicians ex-president Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed ‘Farmajo' Farmajo's former prime minister Hassan Ali Khaire former president Sharif Sheikh Ahmed to the long-time Farmajo foe Abdirahman Abdishakur Warsame...

They say Hassan Sheikh's favouritism was based on the tendency of Agonyere to side with their kinsman Sharif Sheikh Ahmed a serious rival in the presidential elections in 2026...

He wishes to appoint Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed as his special representative in negotiations over the future of the statelet with ambitions of independence...

The largest part of the SNA contingent were Abgal/Agonyare and at the end of April they went to Jowhar to provide election security for their fellow clan member the former federal President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed at an election on 2 May...

But the faction that most wanted to avoid combat which includes former President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and former Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire eventually prevailed helped by the international pressure...

Abgals Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and Hassan Sheikh Mahamud both former presidents are strong contenders and have agreed to switch their votes to whichever of the two polls the most in the first round...

They blocked the streets and there was some shooting between the bodyguards of the former presidents CPC leaders Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and Hassan Sheikh Mohamud with Farmajo's men...