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...The current government of Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, who returned as president for a second stint in 2022, claims to have made progress in suppressing al-Shabaab, but now faces one of Somalia’s worst droughts...
...“Not an inch of Somalia can or will be signed away by anybody,” Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud wrote on X....
...“Two things are there to defeat al-Shabaab: one is militarily, another is ideological,” Hassan Sheikh Mohamud told the Financial Times in an exclusive interview from the presidential compound in the capital...
...The militant group has stepped up attacks in the past year since president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s government launched the first major campaign led by Somali troops — with help from the US, Turkey and the...
...Somalia conflict: President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud told the FT he was confident his new military offensive against al-Shabaab would “defeat” the al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group....
...This is the first major assault by al-Shabaab since former leader Hassan Sheikh Mohamud returned to office as president in early June....
...Former leader Hassan Sheikh Mohamud will return to office, replacing Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, known as Farmaajo, who has been in power since 2017....
...Mr Farmaajo, as he is expected to be called, defeated incumbent president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and 19 other candidates in two rounds of voting....
...Authorities are hunting Mohamed Mohamud, a former teacher from Garissa, whom they allege masterminded the attack....
...Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, Somalia’s president, told the Financial Times in an interview this year that Mr Godane was both the spiritual head of al-Shabaab and its political and military leader....
...UN officials said President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, who has survived several attempts on his life, was unharmed....
...When former academic Hassan Sheikh Mohamud became president of Somalia in late 2012, his election was hailed as a sign of progress in a country destroyed by years of war and terrorism....
...Somali and international officials say Mr Schulman did however meet with finance minister Hussein Abdi Halane and, separately, Somalia president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in recent weeks in an effort to reactivate...
...Sheikh Mohamud told the FT ahead of the report’s release....
...Hope: images of David Cameron, British prime minister, and Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, Somali president, are held side by side in Mogadishu, on Tuesday, as hundreds of Somalis marched through the capital to support...
...In her letter to Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, Somalia’s president, she said: “From the moment I was appointed, I have continuously been asked to sanction deals and violate my fiduciary responsibility to the Somali...
...Last year suicide bombers attacked the Mogadishu hotel where newly elected President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was staying, killing eight people. Mr Mohamud was unhurt....
...“If the banks do not reverse their decision it will be a disaster for our country, which is in a fragile state, just recovering from long-term conflict,” said Mohamud Hassan Suleiman, Somali finance minister...
...Somalia needs its own Marshall plan to recover from decades of poverty, civil war and terrorism, says the country’s president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud....
...Sheikh Mohamud. http://on.ft.com/11Oi5jz Brazil in tight race with Mexico to head WTO Roberto Azevêdo of Brazil and Herminio Blanco of Mexico are scrambling to secure last minute votes in a tight race...
...People are fighting to get in,” added Mr Kuntawala, who said that at an international aid conference in London earlier this month Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the Somali president, was besieged by 200 business...
...In May both Mr Abdirizak and President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud told the FT they would not sign any oil deals until the petroleum bill and the new constitution were made compatible, but they have now abandoned...
...But the arrest of Hassan Dahir Aweys, the spiritual leader of al-Shabaab, late in June has presented the fragile administration with a difficult dilemma....
...Here is an excerpt from Katrina’s interview with the country’s president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud....
...Mohamud Hassan Suleiman, finance minister, said almost everything needs to be renewed from scratch including the currency, which has not been officially reprinted for more than 20 years....
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