Alliance for the Liberation of Somalia (ALS) is an organization created in September 2007 when Somali Islamists and opposition leaders meeting in Eritrea have joined forces to fight the occupation of Somalia by Ethiopian and TFG forces. Roughly 400 delegates, including Former ICU Shura chairman Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, ICU Executive chairman Sharif Sheikh Ahmad former TFG Speaker of Parliament Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden and the former TFG Deputy Prime Minister Hussein Mohamed Farrah, have approved a constitution and central committee. It aims to remove the Ethiopian-backed government by negotiation - or war. The Alliance has a 191 member Central Committee chaired by Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden, and a 10 member Executive Committee chaired by Sharif Sheikh Ahmad. Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys explicitly stated he did not hold any formal position in the alliance. Islamists hold 45% of the seats, ex-MPs hold 25%, and the rest of the seats are held by representatives of the diaspora and civil society.[1]
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