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A Somali police officer looks out from the remains of the Al Uraba Hotel, in Mogadishu, in an area of the city that until recently was a no man’s land created between rival clans.Photograph by Sven Torfinn / Panos
Late this summer, after meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Nairobi, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, the President of Somalia, flew home to Mogadishu, the country’s capital, aboard a chartered propeller plane. The Mogadishu airport is little more than a runway alongside the beach at the southern edge of the city. The plane, which had flown three hours over a largely uninhabited arid wilderness, came to a halt in front of a tiny terminal building; a crashed jet lay crumpled, nose forward, nearby. There were soldiers everywhere. A group of women in long dresses and colorful turbans began chanting greetings as Sharif, a slim, youthful man of forty-five, climbed from the plane. But in less than five minutes the welcoming ceremonies were over, and Sharif had taken his place inside a Toyota Land Cruiser with smoked-glass windows, flanked by armored personnel carriers, each with two machine gunners manning open turrets. I had accompanied Sharif on the flight, and was hustled into the back of an A.P.C., which had pulled up close to the plane, by one of Sharif
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Sharif Sheikh Ahmed
El xeic Sharif Sheikh Ahmed (somali: Shariif Sheekh Axmed; àrab: شريف شيخ أحمد, Xarīf Xayẖ Aḥmad) és un polític i religiós somali amb títol de xeic, nascut el 25 de juliol de 1964 a la regió de Shabeellaha Dhexe. Va estudiar a universitats de Líbia i Sudan. Pertany al clan abgaal dels hawiye. Va ensenyar geografia, àrab, anglès i religió a una escola secundària a Somàlia.
Fou escollit com a jutge a una cort local a Jowhar. Uns anys després una milícia de Mogadiscio va segrestar un estudiant i va demanar rescat a la seva família a canvi del seu alliberament. Des de llavors, impressionat pel fet, es va integrar en les Corts Islàmiques de Somàlia[1]
El 2004 era ja una figura dins les corts. Era amic del xeic Hassan Dahir Aweys, un dels fundadors i d'Aden Hashi Farah «Eyrow», acusat pels Estats Units de connexions terroristes amb Al-Qaeda i d'haver lluitat a l'Afganistan el 2001.[2]
El 9 de setembre del 2006, Sharif Ahmed era a Sirte a Líbia per a una cerimònia de la Unió Africana per la VII cimera de caps d'estat, i va declarar que buscava la mediació de Líbia per arribar a un acord amb el Govern Federal de Transició (GFT). Va acusar Etiòpia d'intervenir a Somàlia des de feia cinc cents anys i va assegurar que en aquell moment hi