As an Abgal/Hawiye he could be a rival to Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi also Abgal...
President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed who is not keen on his Premier has been courting Ali Mahdi - while Ali Mohamed appeals to Ali Mahdi as a fellow clansman against the President and his Majerteen/Darod supporters...
The regime has two immediate aims: to avoid handing over State Humanitarian Affairs Minister Ahmed Mohamed Harun and a Janjaweed chief Ali Mohamed Ali Abdel Rahman (Ali 'Kusheib') to the ICC and to block UN peacekeepers sanctions and a no-fly zone...
Vol 48 No 9 |
- ERITREA
- SOMALIA
A few weeks ago Aideed was supporting the Ethiopian presence in Somalia and calling for removal of the boundaries between Ethiopia and Somalia - a suggestion that so appalled TFG Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi that he demoted Aideed to Housing...
A main Hawiye group the Abgal/Mudalood is represented by Premier Ali Mohamed Gedi and Deputy Defence Minister Salad Ali Jelle a confidant of the reinstated Middle Shebelli Governor former warlord Mohamed Omar Habeb 'Dhere' who has reportedly been promised the Mogadishu governorship when the fighting stops...
Ali Mohamed Hassan Loyan (Marehan) and the Chief of Staff Gen...
* In AC Vol 48 No 5 we wrongly described Humanitarian Affairs State Minister Ahmed Mohamed Harun named as a war-crimes suspect in Darfur by the International Criminal Court as 'Ali Mohamed Harun'...
Vol 48 No 5 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi excused his absence through Mali's President Amadou Toumani Touré who was effulgent towards Chirac while - in a conference workshop - Somalia's Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi raised some eyebrows by speaking of his country as in a 'post-conflict situation'...
On 27 February the ICC indicted former judge Colonel Ali Mohamed Harun on 51 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity...
The other indictee Ali Mohamed Ali Abdel Rahman aka Ali 'Kusheib' (a strong sorghum spirit) is the main Janjaweed leader in West Darfur...
Prominent on state television as defender of the police action was Ali Mohamed Harun then State Interior Minister now State Humanitarian Affairs Minister and on 27 February indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes in Darfur...
Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi said that an AU force will start deploying by the end of January as Ethiopia starts pulling out the 5 000 troops who keep the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) in power...
Some of Premier Ali Mohamed's allies talk of extending the Ethiopian stay but that would almost certainly provoke a violent counter reaction given the strength of Somali nationalism and historical enmities with Ethiopia...
The governments of Angola Mozambique Nigeria and South Africa have been approached and have not refused according to Ali Mohamed's officials but no other country apart from Uganda has definitely offered troops...
Prime Minister Ali Mohamed is Mudalood/Abgal but his appointment merely prompted warlords like Mohammed Qanyare Afrah (Murasade/Hawiye) and Musa Sudi Yalahow to complain about the government of which they were technically members...
Ali Mohamed has much more power now not just because of his Ethiopian backing...