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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....
...Sheikh Mohamud’s first tenure was mired in corruption scandals....
...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....
...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....
...Last year suicide bombers attacked the Mogadishu hotel where newly elected President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was staying, killing eight people. Mr Mohamud was unhurt....
...President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud admits reconciliation is a long way off....
...The targeted Muna hotel lies not far from the presidential palace of Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, the transitional government’s embattled leader....
...“We will carry out attacks against our enemy wherever they are,” Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage, an al-Shabaab spokesman in Mogadishu, told the Associated Press news agency, claiming responsibility for the explosions...
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