Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed is a Somali politician who served as the 7th President of Somalia from 2009 to 2012. Before his presidency, he became the Chairman of the Islamic Courts Union from 2004 to 2
Sharif in 2021
Sharif in Balad, Somalia in 2012
Sharif (right) and Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (left), flanking Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed at Mohamed's inauguration as president in 2017
The Islamic Courts Union was a legal and political organization founded by Mogadishu-based Sharia courts during the early 2000s to combat the lawlessness stemming from the Somali Civil War. By mid-to-
Sharif Sheikh Ahmed
…July 1965) is a Somali politician who served as the 7th President of Somalia from 2009 to 2012. Before his presidency, he became the Chairman of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) from 2004 to 2007 and the Alliance of Re-liberation of Somalia (ARS) from 2007 to 2009. In 2004, Sharif became the head of the ICU. By mid-2006…
Crowds gather for the reopening of the Mosque of Islamic Solidarity (Masjidka Isbahaysiga) in Mogadishu on 18 August 2006
Prof. Ibrahim Hassan Adow, appointed head of the Foreign Affairs department for the union. He had previously worked as an administrator at the American University in Washington, D.C., before returning to Somalia in 1999.
Banners at an ICU rally against the 2006 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, one of which reads "Let us support the steadfastness of the Lebanese heroes"
ICU insurgents with prisoners of war in Mogadishu (2008)