Ahmed Mohamed Islam

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Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed Islam (Somali: Sheekh Axmed Maxamed Islam, Arabic: شيخ أحمد محمد إسلام) better known as Ahmed Madobe, is a Somali politician and a former militant who is the current president of the Jubaland state of Somalia and the chairman of the Raskamboni Movement. During the early years of the Somali Civil War in the 1990s Madobe fought for Al-Itihaad Al-Islamiya and later served as a regional governor for the Islamic Courts Union in the mid-2000s. During the War in Somalia (2006–2009) he was captured by Ethiopian-American troops and made a prisoner of war. He was released in early 2009 and joined the post-Ethiopian military withdrawal Transitional Federal Parliament before resigning and joining the insurgent group Hizbul Islam. Madobe helped lead Hizbul Islam troops in Kismayo during fighting against Al-Shabaab in 2009 and formed the Raskamboni Movement later that year. In 2012, the movement captured Kismayo with the aid of the Kenyan military and the following year he became...

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