When the Africa Oil deal was being signed there was much back and forth between Garowe and Mogadishu about the authority to conclude the deal with the then Transitional Federal Government President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed giving the ultimate go-ahead...
In July 2009 Ali Abdi Amalow the Director of Financial Asset Recovery and Banking Affairs for the Transitional Federal Government led by Sharif Sheikh Ahmed had engaged the firm to help to recover Somali funds which had been lodged abroad...
The current government under President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and its predecessor under President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed had wanted to exploit Aweys's differences with the rest of Al Shabaab...
Meanwhile last month there was a quiet meeting of business people close to Ala Sheikh the politico-religious group of Sharif Sheikh Ahmed Sheikh Mahmud the ex-President of the preceding regime the Transitional Federal Government say Somali sources in Nairobi...
they were in the hands of the National Intelligence and Security Service) while last year Sudan was reported with Qatar to be funding the government of Hassan Sheikh’s equally Islamist predecessor Sharif Sheikh Ahmed (AC Vol 51 No 13 The international agenda & AC Vol 53 No 5 Cashing in on chaos)...
His victory marked the end of three years of rule by Sharif Sheikh Ahmed whose Transitional Federal Government (TFG) was characterised by chronic corruption and whose security services were vulnerable to infiltration by Al Haraka al Shabaab al Mujahideen (AC Vol 53 No 19 New president new laws and old enemies)...
Four of the top six were Islamists: Hassan; his predecessor Sharif Sheikh Ahmed from Tajamuc (aka Ala Sheikh); Abdirahman Moalin Baadiyo from a faction of Al Islaah; Abdulqadir Ossoble from Al Itisaam a continuation of Al Itahaad al Islamiya (AC Vol 42 No 22)...
Being an Abgal was in his favour: his clan claims to own Mogadishu and many thought an Abgal leader could help to prevent trouble in the capital – as long as it wasn’t his predecessor Sharif Sheikh Ahmed an Abgal/Harti...
President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed criticised the committee because the then Speaker Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden (Rahenweyn/Ashraf) and Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali (Darod/Majerteen/Omar Mohamud) had chosen its 27 members...
Anyone but Sharif Sheikh Ahmed In the first round Hassan Sheikh won the endorsement of the few MPs who had backed him in 2011 24 MPs mostly linked to Al Islaah...
Meles had last appeared in public on 26 June at a meeting with President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed of Somalia...
Two other figures who are reluctant to bow out are Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and his political foe Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan...