American embassy knew of Egal’s premiership appointment before Sharmarkee told Osman.

Evidence

Sharmarkee pretended that no decision had been made about who would be nominated as prime minister, but it was an open secret that Mohamed Ibrahim Egal was promised the premiership. Sharmarkee requested a meeting with Osman on July 2 without specifying its agenda. From Osman’s diary, it is clear that Sharmarkee was only going through the motions of consulting with the former president about who to nominate for the premiership. What Sharmarkee did not know was that on June 21 Osman had already heard from the American ambassador that Egal was to be appointed as prime minister: This morning at 10:00 am Abdirashid [Sharmarkee] came to visit me at home. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 971