Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan

There is open hostility between President Sharif a former geography teacher and Islamist rebel later of the Islamist Courts Union and the Speaker of Parliament Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan an illiterate but shrewd businessman...

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...

This was a top-level deal signed for the TFG by Sheikh Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and for the ASWJ by Sheikh Mahamoud Yussuf Heefaw who became Chairman in January in the presence of its spiritual leader Sheikh Mahamoud Sheikh Hassan...

UN officials say Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan Finance Minister Deputy Prime Minister and member of ARS is reluctant to see Sharif Sheikh broaden his alliances and that other officials like the influential Posts and Telecommunications Minister Abdirizak Osman Hassan are keen to maintain business arrangements built around the TFG...

Somalia's Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan provided evidence of Eritrean interference to the Council of Ministers of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) on 20 May...

The Free Parliamentarians group led by the ex-Speaker Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan consists of members of parliament who lost their jobs in February 2007 for backing a compromise between the TFG and the ICU; like the Courts its members want the Ethiopian troops out but mainly they want their jobs back...

The second led by the former Speaker of the Transitional Parliament Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan consists of members expelled from the Baidoa-based Transitional Parliament styling themselves the 'Independent Members of Parliament'...

Meetings have taken place in Asmara between Sheikh Sharif Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan (former parliamentary Speaker sacked in January) and a dozen or so mostly Hawiye members of parliament...

In mid-April Asmara hosted a meeting attended by three ICU leaders: Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan former Speaker of the TFG parliament; Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed former Chairman of the ICU Executive Committee; and Hassan Mohamed Farah 'Aideed' former TFG Deputy Premier and Interior Minister...

The European Union's representatives have been pushing for the inclusion of what it calls 'moderates' from the ICU specifically Sheikh Sharif and Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan the former Speaker of Parliament who tried to make a private peace deal with the ICU last year...