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...Officials close to Sheikh Mohamud said the debt-relief deal would be a turning point and was an endorsement of the administration’s progress in tackling the country’s deep-seated economic and political problems...
...“We’ve linked together our forces and the community to liberate these areas,” said Sheikh Mohamud....
...“Not an inch of Somalia can or will be signed away by anybody,” Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud wrote on X....
...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....
...Abdirashid Mohamed Ahmed, the country’s petroleum minister, is rushing to attract investment to the east African country that has been ravaged by civil war over the past 30 years, with hopes its hydrocarbon...
...He said local federal state forces were more effective than the national army....
...The attack came two days after the unexpected resignation of Abdirashid Abdullahi Mohamed, the defence minister, and Somalia’s military chief General Mohamed Ahmed Jimale....
...The new president also said in the run-up to the election that he would invite al-Shabaab for a “sit-down and discussion”, a move that his predecessor Mr Mohamud and neighbouring countries have resisted...
...The accompanying affidavits include one from Mohamud Ibrahim, who says he was appointed to be the presiding officer at a primary school in Mandera North constituency....
...Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, the prime minister, condemned the killings as “barbaric”....
...Authorities are hunting Mohamed Mohamud, a former teacher from Garissa, whom they allege masterminded the attack....
...Neither the US nor al-Shabaab militants said whether Mr Godane died in the strike....
...Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage, an al-Shabaab spokesman, said the latest attack was a response to Kenya's troop presence in Somalia and alleged atrocities committed by the Kenyan army there....
...UN officials said President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, who has survived several attempts on his life, was unharmed....
...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...
...Mr Mohamud is about to work with his fourth central bank governor in less than a year, after one was accused of gross corruption by UN investigators, who said last year that $12m had gone missing from the...
...Mr Mohamud, who survived an assassination attempt this week, said he wants to assure donors that Somalia has a “very transparent and accountable government” and said he is expecting pledges of “more than...
...Abdirashid Duale, chief executive of Dahabshiil, said he was grateful for the help provided by campaigners and very pleased with the court’s decision....
...“This needs to be addressed as a matter of urgency,” said Abdirashid Duale, Dahabshiil chief executive....
...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...
...,” said Mr Mohamud. “We have a very clear plan about moving the country from emergency . . . to development in the future.”...
...“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...
...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...
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