It fell to State Minister for Foreign Affairs Ali Mohamed Omar to remind the Ethiopian prime minister that no change in sovereignty is likely even though that could cool relations with Abiy at a time when President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud wants Ethiopian troops to play a greater role in the offensive against Al Shabaab...
Nine months ago when President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud announced a pause in its hitherto successful anti-Al Shabaab offensive prospects were good...
HASSAN SHEIKH CORRECTS COURSE AFTER OSWEYNE DEFEAT President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud might have ended up in the political wilderness after government forces were overwhelmed by Al Shabaab at Osweyne on 26 August...
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's government is determined to tackle the age-old problem after coming under heavy pressure from the international community...
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has announced several bold political changes and promised to succeed in his bid to join the East African Community...
One person one vote one day… President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's announcement at the end of a National Consultative Council (NCC) meeting from 24 to 27 May that by June next year Somalia would have moved to one-person one-vote elections had no advance notice let alone consultation with civil society or Parliament...
When Al Shabaab attacked an African Union Transitional Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) base on 26 May and killed up to 100 Ugandan soldiers and taking prisoners it struck a powerful blow against President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's long-running offensive...
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President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's government is edging towards an agreement with the international financial institutions that could slash its external debt by 90% after a completion of a review by the IMF's Executive Board...
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International pressure on President Muse Bihi Abdi was strong enough eventually to result in a late March phone conversation with President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud which was followed by the assembling of a mediation team of clan elders in Mogadishu...
The picture that emerged was of signal successes in the anti-Al Shabaab campaign in the last six months since President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud made the military campaign his highest priority building on new clan alliances to keep up momentum (AC Vol 64 No 1 Trouble ahead for Hassan Sheikh's united front)...
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has bigger fish to fry keeping his anti-Al Shabaab offensive on track and Puntland has no reason to be in Las Anod because it does not support the goal of self-government there – it wants the region to be part of Puntland...
And institution-building a key strategy of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud remains more verbal than real (AC Vol 64 No 1 Trouble ahead for Hassan Sheikh's united front)...