Abdirahman Ahmed Ali Tuur
| Abdirahman Ahmed Ali Tuur عبد الرحمن أحمد علي الطور |
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| President of Somaliland | |
| In office 28 May 1991 – 16 May 1993 |
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| Succeeded by | Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal |
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| Died | 8 November 2003 |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
For the Somali politician executed for apostasy in 2009, see Abdirahman Ahmed
Abdirahman Ahmed Ali Tuur (Somali: Cabdiraxmaan Axmed Cali Tuur, Arabic: عبد الرحمن أحمد علي الطور) (var. "Tur", "Tour", meaning "Hunchback"[1]) was a Somali politician. He was the first president (1991-1993) of the self-proclaimed but internationally unrecognized republic of Somaliland in northern Somalia.
[edit] Biography
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. Although the SNM at its inception had a unionist constitution, it eventually began to pursue a separatist agenda, looking to secede from the rest of Somalia. Under Tuur's leadership, the local administration declared the northwestern Somali territories independent on 18 May 1991. He then became the newly-established Somaliland polity’s first President, but subsequently renounced the separatist platform in 1994 and began instead to publicly seek and advocate reconciliation with the rest of Somalia under a power-sharing federal system of governance.[2] Tuur also lent some support to the UNOSOM peace-building mission in the southern regions, which alienated him from Somaliland's succeeding government as well as many former followers.[3]
When support for Tuur in southern Somalia failed to materialise, he was exiled to Ethiopia for almost a decade, before returning to Somaliland on 10 February 2003, 9 months before his death on 8 November 2003.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Issue Paper: SOMALIA, UPDATE ON THE SITUATION IN THE NORTH (SOMALILAND), Research Directorate of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, January 1995
- ^ Somaliland’s Quest for International Recognition and the HBM-SSC Factor
- ^ Somaliland and Peace in the Horn of Africa: A Situation Report and Analysis, M. Bryden, UN Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia Drafted 13 November 1995. Updated/edited version Published in African Security Review Vol 13 No 2, 2004.
[edit] References
- Somalia - Worldstatesmen.com
- "Somaliland: The Other Somalia with No War", Suliman Baldo in The Nation (Nairobi), 30 June 2006, The Nation (Nairobi)
- History of Somaliland, somalilandnet.com
- THE SECRETARY-GENERAL'S REPORT, ABDIRAHMAN "TUUR", AND SOMALILAND, SOMALIA News Update, Vol 3, No 16, May 28, 1994. ISSN 1103-1999
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| New title | President of Somaliland 1991 – 1993 |
Succeeded by Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal |
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