But only a few days before hanging out with the President of the United States, Mohamed was paling around with another president of a country: Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.
While visiting Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, Mohamed and his father were special guests of al-Bashir at the Presidential Compound.
Remember that #ClockBoy ‘Ahmed Mohamed’, that everyone fawned over? Here he is posing with the Butcher of #Sudan. pic.twitter.com/rH7tuV6wbY
— Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) October 17, 2015
Ahmed’s father, Mohamed Hassan al-Sufi, has twice run for the presidency of Sudan.
Ahmed has been tweeting his trip to the Middle East, calling Sudan “home.”
I am coming home, tell the world I am coming home #sudan pic.twitter.com/DEO0acpYtN
— Ahmed Mohamed (@IStandWithAhmed) October 13, 2015
And going to Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
#Mecca with my family. pic.twitter.com/r2cbeR4CKx
— Ahmed Mohamed (@IStandWithAhmed) October 10, 2015
Ahmed tweeted while in Sudan, but did not tweet anything about his meeting with the “Butcher of Darfur.”
Source: The Daily Caller