The Monitoring Group has also obtained evidence that President Hassan Sheikhβs entourage were also complicit in bribery. Sources indicate that the President received several million dollars from Qatar which was used to buy off political support.34 Important carriers of cash donations from Qatar include Fahad Yasin and Abdi Aynte, two former journalists from the Doha based news organisation Al-Jazeera. They are now senior figures at the Heritage Institute for Policy Studies (HIPS), an FGS-aligned think tank in Mogadishu established with financing from Qatar. Aynte, the director of HIPS, is a prominent member of the Ala Sheikh political and business association of former TFG President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed. Yasin, an associate of HIPS, is the nephew of Farah Abdulqadir, the current Minister of State for the Presidency and part of the Damul Jadid political association close to President Hassan Sheikh. Both Aynte and Yasin are important figures in consolidating cooperation between Ala Sheikh and Damul Jadid.