Hassan Sheikh Mohamud

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud wants more central control for national government and the Jubaland election is for him an unwelcome trend of emerging regional entities...

The second speaker Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud commended the peaceful elections saying that this was critical to stability in his own country thereby backing the second argument...

Nevertheless British Prime Minister David Cameron was keen to tell the world that ‘the international community has united around Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’ and that ‘remarkable’ progress had been made against Al Haraka al Shabaab al Mujahideen who had been ‘driven out of town after town’...

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s new government is leading on the Plan and using the Bank’s expertise...

Since Hassan Sheikh Mohamud became President last September however and even more since he appointed Abdi Farah Shirdon ‘Said’ as Prime Minister Puntland has been isolated from federal-level politics (AC Vol 53 No 19 New president new laws and old enemies)...

When the United States officially recognised the new government of Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on 20 January there was dancing in the streets of Mogadishu but there was misery in Hargeisa at least among its rulers...

For weeks diplomats in Kenya have fretted about the brewing discord between President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud of Somalia and Mwai Kibaki of Kenya...

That was President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud of Somalia...

Optimism was high last September when President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud took office and appointed a cabinet led by Abdi Farah Shirdon ‘Said’ (AC Vol 53 No 22 Not yet spring in Mogadishu)...

Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has given no indication that his government will hold meaningful discussions with the Hargeisa government over the issue of recognition and both Puntland and Somaliland seem resigned to focus on domestic policies...