He was Marehan/Wagardhac/reer Wardheere

-In 1960, he was Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
-In 1963, he was Somali Ambassador to the European Economic Community (pre-cursor to the European Union)
-In 1969, he was Somali Ambassador to Italy
-In 1974, he was Somali Ambassador to France
-In 1978, he was made Ministry of State of the Presidency and put in charge of developing Somalia's relations with the West after we fell out with the Soviets
Mohamed Said Samantar was born in Wardheer in the Ogadenia. While very young, he participated in the fight for his country’s independence. In 1949 he joined the Somali Youth League, a movement opposing the British occupation.
In 1960, M.S. Samantar joined the Somali Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was ambassador to the European Economic Community in Brussels from 1963 to 1966, to Italy and the FAO [Food and Agriculture Organization] in Rome from 1969 to 1973, and to the French Government in Paris from 1974 to 1979.
He was appointed minister of state at the presidency in Mogadishu in 1979 and placed in charge of relations with the Western powers in a particularly touchy regional and international context involving the commitment of the USSR and Cuba on behalf of Ethiopia.