The film was denounced as propaganda by office of the new President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud...

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's presidency is off to an energetic start with a major reorientation of Somalia's regional alliances a return to federalist and devolutionary policies and a purge of the National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) which was stuffed with supporters of his predecessor Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed 'Farmajo' and infiltrated by Al Shabaab...

It is proposed to mark the change in NISA's national role by renaming it the Federal Intelligence and Security Agency (FISA) underlining President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's commitment to the federal system which President Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed 'Farmajo' was opposed to and to make it a neutral servant of the state...

This is likely to be upset by the election of Hassan Sheikh Mohamud as Somalia's President this month...

Within hours of his election on 15 May Hassan Sheikh Mohamud a 66-year-old former president and founder of a private university was warmly congratulated by international and regional leaders with a couple of exceptions...

PRESIDENT BIDEN SENDS US FORCES BACK INTO THE FRAY Less than a day after Hassan Sheikh Mohamud emerged as Somalia's new President following indirect elections on 15 May United States President Joe Biden announced that about 450 US Special Forces would be redeployed to the country...

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud Farmajo's predecessor as president remains an option for Doha (AC Vol 63 No 8 Washington eyes a base at Berbera)...

The sovereignty issues were resolved thanks to the closeness of the then President in Mogadishu Hassan Sheikh Mohamud to then Somaliland President Ahmed Silanyo...

In 2012 he helped Hassan Sheikh Mohamud get elected president by providing funds from Qatar...

Abgals Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and Hassan Sheikh Mahamud both former presidents are strong contenders and have agreed to switch their votes to whichever of the two polls the most in the first round...