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Somaliland
Somalia calls on Ethiopia to tear up deal with breakaway Somaliland
...“Not an inch of Somalia can or will be signed away by anybody,” Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud wrote on X....
January 11, 2024
Niger
Niger junta threatens treason charge against ousted president Bazoum
...Sheikh Abdullahi Bala Lau, an Islamic cleric who led the delegation to Niger on the orders of Nigerian president Bola Tinubu, told the Al Jazeera network that Tchiani had “accepted to have fully direct discussions...
August 14, 2023
FT Live
Africa Summit
Africa in a complex world
Tuesday, 29 OctoberLondon, UK
The Big Read
Somalia rebuilds: ‘the glass is now half-full’
...Sheikh Mohamud expresses willingness to “dialogue” with Somaliland’s president, Muse Bihi Abdi, but stresses that, in the end “there won’t be a secession, it is part of Somalia”, a claim that Somaliland’...
April 16, 2023
Africa
Horn of Africa ravaged by worst drought in four decades
...When the last of his 250 goats died, pastoralist Abdullahi Abdi Wali knew it was time to flee what he calls the “worst drought” in his 99 years of life....
May 3, 2022
African politics
Somalia conflict escalates: ‘We know al-Shabaab will take advantage’
...“Intense shelling damaged several buildings,” said Mohamed Sheikh, who oversees the International Committee of the Red Cross operations in the area....
December 29, 2021
US foreign policy
US to establish ‘persistent’ military presence in Somalia
...Former leader Hassan Sheikh Mohamud will return to office, replacing Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, known as Farmaajo, who has been in power since 2017....
May 16, 2022
FT Live
The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition
FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government
Wednesday, 4 DecemberDigital Conference
Africa
Somaliland battles for recognition after 30 years’ fending for itself
...Somalia’s president, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, popularly known as Farmaajo, is now at loggerheads with his prime minister ahead of an election in October....
September 28, 2021
FT SeriesErdogan’s great game
Erdogan’s great game: Turkey pushes into Africa with aid, trade and soaps
...“Turkey is clearly a big player in Somalia, but mainly it is a very important commercial player in Ethiopia,” said Rashid Abdi, an independent expert on the Horn of Africa....
January 18, 2021
Africa
US ramps up air strikes against Somali extremist group
...The resilience of al-Shabaab’s political and social apparatus means that air strikes alone are a dead-end, according to Rashid Abdi, Horn of Africa program director at the International Crisis Group....
February 9, 2019
Somaliland
Somaliland steps up push for international recognition
...A planned first meeting between Muse Bihi Abdi, Somaliland’s president, and his Somali counterpart Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo was shelved earlier this year as tensions flared over DP World’s investment in...
November 1, 2018
World
Death toll in Somalia bombing rises to 276
...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....
October 15, 2017
World
Somaliland hopes election will bolster case for independence
...Mr Abdi’s main challenger is Abdirahman Abdullahi, speaker of parliament for 12 years until three months ago and head of the Waddani party, which is less enthusiastic about the UAE deals....
November 12, 2017
World
Farmaajo begins ‘era of unity’ as Somali president
...Mr Farmaajo, as he is expected to be called, defeated incumbent president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and 19 other candidates in two rounds of voting....
February 8, 2017
Somaliland
Peace and prehistory in Somaliland
...I spent almost a week in the country, travelling from Borama in the northwest to the delightful town of Sheikh, high on an escarpment in the Golis mountains....
June 26, 2015
Kenyan air force strikes al Shabaab camps in Somalia
...Abdirahim Abdullahi, an ethnic Somali, was reported missing by his father after he crossed into Somalia to join al Shabaab. All four gunmen were killed in the siege....
April 6, 2015
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Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
World
US military launches air strike on al-Shabaab extremists in Somalia
...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....
September 2, 2014
Oil
Somalia to rewrite contracts in response to corruption concerns
...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...
September 17, 2014
Shipping
Belgian police detain two suspected Somali pirates
...Mohamed Abdi Hassan, nicknamed Afweyne or “Big Mouth”, was detained with another suspect, Mohamed M....
October 14, 2013
Q&AWorld
Q&A: Who are al-Shabaab?
...Last year suicide bombers attacked the Mogadishu hotel where newly elected President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was staying, killing eight people. Mr Mohamud was unhurt....
September 23, 2013
Oil
Somalia: Oil thrown on the fire
...Indeed, seven months into the job, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has called for a consensus, saying he has not yet signed any oil deals....
May 13, 2013
FT Magazine
Welcome to Mogadishu
...President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud admits reconciliation is a long way off....
May 31, 2013
African companies
Big money in little Mogadishu
...“Somalis are business-minded people,” says Abdi Wali Abdullahi, a former army captain who entered Kenya as a refugee in 1991....
June 28, 2012
Middle East protests
North Africa: A region abounding with potential
...“You often need to tweak laws and regulations to enable Islamic finance,” says Sameer Abdi, head of Ernst & Young’s Islamic financial services group in the Middle East and North Africa....
December 13, 2010
Terrorism
Neglect of Somalia will have high price
...Ahmed Abdi Godane, al-Shabaab’s leader, warned this was “just the beginning”. While Washington and London have concentrated on Afghanistan, al-Shabaab has been recruiting foreign fighters....
August 25, 2010
Global Economy
President raises hopes for Somalia
...Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, president of Somalia since January, landed in office with a weak hand and a seemingly impossible task....
April 27, 2009

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