Picking a fight with President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's government in Somalia would seem unnecessarily reckless for little gain – other than further ingratiating himself with Abu Dhabi...
Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and his federal government in Mogadishu previously reluctant to support the Dhulbahante claim for their own federal state pressured Puntland's President Said Abdullahi Deni and its sponsor the UAE...
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President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is trying to shore up diplomatic support for Somalia in the wake of Israel's recognition of the breakaway republic of Somaliland at the end of last year (AC Vol 67 No 1 Somaliland's bombshell ripples through the Horn)...
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The last-minute postponement of Wang's visit to Somalia was blamed ‘technical and scheduling complications' by our sources close to President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (AC Vol 67 No 1 Somaliland's bombshell ripples through the Horn)...
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President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's federal government in Mogadishu is being targeted for security and governance failures by senior Republicans in the United States who want Washington to recognise the breakaway region of Somaliland...
Third there are the internal opponents of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud...
Fiqi was not backed up by Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud because the latter doesn't want any derogatory mention of the UAE by his ministers...
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has strengthened his position in the run-up to the presidential election next year by skilfully dividing the opposition...
Vol 66 No 20 |
- AFRICA
- ISLAMISM
In July 2022 Somalia's president Hassan Sheikh Mahamud launched the first real offensive against Al Shabaab in over a decade...
18 Mar – Mogadishu Somalia: Al-Shabaab roadside bomb targeted President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's convoy near Villa Somalia killing 10 people and injuring 20...
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But the pledging conference on the sidelines of the General Assembly chaired by Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and co-convened by the AU UN and the United Kingdom delivered plenty of rhetorical support for AUSSOM particularly from troop-contributing neighbouring countries Ethiopia and Kenya but little in the way of cash (Dispatches 7/1/25 Row over troop numbers jeopardises AU mission)...
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The United Arab Emirates has puzzled many observers with its hostility towards the Somali federal President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and its active support of his opponents in the capital and in the federal member states in the last two years...
Relations between Somali federal President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and then Somaliland President Ahmed Mohamud Silanyo were cordial...