Hassan Sheikh Mohamud

Nairobi has never given an official figure but President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud recently referred in passing to 180 Kenyans as having died...

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has strongly criticised the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) for causing many civilian casualties in Gedo Region...

Accompanied by Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud at a memorial service for the Kenyan troops on 27 January Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta vowed to keep his forces under the AU flag in Somalia...

The 2012 selection of MPs who then elected President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was judged so corrupt that it could not be repeated (AC Vol 53 No 22 Not yet spring in Mogadishu)...

While an MP he travelled regularly to both Somalia and Somaliland and in February 2014 met Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud at the British Embassy in Mogadishu along with the then British Ambassador Neil Wigan...

It might have attracted supporters of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud but they feel their man has a good chance of being elected again...

From the outset there have been reports that President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has taken a keen personal possibly financial interest in the Soma deal...

Cameron is also credited with pushing for closer ties with Mogadishu after he organised the London Conference on Somalia in February 2012 and with President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's government after he came to power that September (AC Vol 53 No 4 No great expectations)...

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud averted an attempt to impeach him on 19 July but a faction of secular MPs is still determined to get rid of him...

The second was Abdikarim Hussein Guled a Saad and former Security Minister who is a founding member of Damul Jadiid ('New Blood a Muslim Brother splinter group) and a close associate of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (AC Vol 55 No 3 New blood in old bottles)...