The limitations of naval action are recognised and some hope for effective action by the new government of Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed (who has just imposed Sharia Islamic law)...
This became apparent with the election on 31 January of Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed as the new President of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG AC Vol 50 No 1)...
Soldiers of the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) - despite recent incidents in which they killed several dozen civilians - are not regarded in the same way as the 'enemy neighbour' while Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed is widely seen as genuinely religious defusing Al Shabaab's jihadist ideology...
Vol 50 No 3 |
- AFRICAN UNION
The new President of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed attended the opening ceremony of the AU Assembly...
Other Islamic organisations which did not use violence against the first TFG such as Al Islah are throwing their weight behind the new TFG President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed formerly head of the Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia (ARS) and previously head of the ICU until it was taken over by hard-line followers of Sheikh Hassan Dahir 'Aweys' (AC Vol 49 No 25 and Vol 50 No 1)...
The return of Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed to Mogadishu following the signing of a power-sharing agreement in Djibouti on 26 November will shape the coming stuggle for control of the Somali capital...
Vol 49 No 22 |
- HORN OF AFRICA
The ICU ex-Chairman Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and former Speaker Sharif Hassan led most ARS leaders into the Djibouti accord with the TFG in August...
Vol 49 No 13 |
- DJIBOUTI
- ERITREA
Its Chairman Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and Sharif Hassan the former Speaker of the Somali Parliament supported by most ARS members attended the meeting with Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government...
The Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia Chairman Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has agreed to a ceasefire but harder-line militants have rejected it and called for his expulsion from ARS...