عبد الرحمن أحمد علي الطور
Abdirahman Ahmed Ali "Tuur"
He was the first president (1991-1993) of the self-proclaimed but internationally unrecognized republic of Somaliland in northern Somalia.
Born in 1931, Tuur had been a diplomat and government official.
He later became the Chairman of the Somali National Movement (SNM), a guerilla force drawn from the Isaaq clan that was attempting to topple the military administration of former President of Somalia Siad Barre.
محمد الحاج ابراهيم ايغال
Maxamed Xaaji Ibraahim Cigaal
born August 15, 1928 in Odweyne, Somaliland. was a Somali politician. He was president (from 1993-2002) of the self-proclaimed Republic of Somaliland.
In June 1960 Egal was Prime minister of the newly independent State of Somaliland, which merged five days later with the former Italian Trust Territory to form Somalia. He served as Somalia's defense minister (1960–1962), Education Minister (1962–1963), Prime minister (1967–1969), and ambassador to India (1976–1978), although he was imprisoned twice under Barre dictatorship. When the Somali Democratic Republic collapsed in 1991, Somaliland unilaterally declared independent status; although he initially opposed its secession, two years later Egal was elected president by a council of Elders.
[edit]Presidential tenure
Egal managed to disarm rebel groups, stabilized the north western region and economy of Somaliland, successfully managed to establish bilateral trade with foreign countries, introduce Somaliland new currency the Somaliland shilling, as well as the Somaliland passport and Somaliland national flag and creating the most successful and powerful armed police and military force in Somalia.
Egal died in Pretoria, South Africa while undergoing surgery at a military hospital. His three sons laid him to rest next to his father in accordance with his last wishes. He was buried at the port city of Berbera. He was given a state funeral in which around 4,000 Somalis mourned and attended the service. Dahir Riyale Kahin was inaugurated as the new leader after Egal's death. During which, the parliament declared seven days of mourning, however flags were not flying at half-staff because the emblem includes the Shahadah, Islam's holiest words.
Saleebaan Gaal
Head of Somaliland's Guurti.
Muuse Bixii
Former SNM Freedom Fighter and Current Leader of Kulmiye a popular political party in Somaliland. Kulmiye is the current ruling party in Somaliland.
احمد محمد محمود سيلانيو
Ahmed M. Mahamoud Silanyo
Early life
1936 Burao, Togdheer.
From 1946 to 1957, he attended the secondary schools in the towns of Sheekh and Amud in northwestern Somalia. He passed the advanced level GCE examinations in London, England, from 1958 to 1960. He then attended college at the University of Manchester, and earned an Honors Bachelor's Degree in Economics (1960–63). He completed his Master's Degree in Economics from the University of Manchester in 1966.
[edit]Political experience
Silanyo served as a junior official at the Ministry of Planning and Coordination in Mogadishu from 1965 to 1969. He was also the Minister of Planning and Coordination (1969–1973), the Minister of Commerce (1973–1978 and 1980–1982), and the Chairman of the National Economic Board (1978–1980). He was the Chairman of the Somali National Movement from 1982 to 1990, and was that organization's longest-serving chairman. From 1993 to 1997, he was a member of the House of Representatives of Somaliland. He served as the Somaliland region's Minister of Finance from 1997 to 1999, in which position he initiated a program of fiscal reform. Between 1999 and 2000, he also worked as Somaliland's Minister of Planning and Coordination, a position from which he resigned in 2001.[2]
ضاهر ريالي كاهن
Dahir Rayale Kahin
Rayale born 12 March 1952 was the third President of Somaliland. He became the third president of Somaliland on May 3, 2002, after the death of Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal. He won elections on April 14, 2003, representing the Ururka Dimuqraadiga Umada Bahawday (UDUB), or United Democratic People's Party, and was sworn into office on May 16, 2003.
Kahin was born in the town of Quljeed in the northwestern Awdal region of Somaliland. He was educated in Amoud, and was later trained in Mogadishu.
Kahin's previous posts included a diplomatic position at the Somali Embassy in Djibouti, intelligence in the government of former president Mohamed Siad Barre, a stint as governor of Awdal and as a businessman, and a term as vice president of Somaliland (1997–2002).
Service in the Barre government
In the last years of the Barre government, during the 1980s, Kahin was the highest-ranking National Security Service (NSS) officer in Berbera.[3]
In 2003, Kahin became the first elected President of Somaliland.
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