Abdullahi Issa
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| Abdullahi Issa Mohamud عبد الله عيسى محمد |
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| In office 29 February 1956 – 1 July 1960 |
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| Preceded by | Inaugural |
| Succeeded by | Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal |
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| Born | 1922 |
| Political party | Somali Youth League |
| Religion | Islam |
Abdullahi Issa Mohamud (Somali: Cabdullahi Ciise Maxamuud, Arabic: عبد الله عيسى محمد) (1922-1988) was the first Prime Minister of Somalia from February 29, 1956 to July 1, 1960.[1]
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[edit] Biography
Issa was born in Somalia in 1922 to a Habar Gidir Hawiye family. When the Second World War broke out, he was still a student. After the turmoil of the war years, he joined the Somali Youth League (SYL) at its onset. Issa typified the Somali political elite of the period, as he was "young (age 38), intelligent, largely self-educated, confident, and determined".[2] He soon became one of the leaders of the SYL, and was eventually appointed the party's Secretary-General.
Issa later went to Paris and New York as an SYL delegate to proclaim the right of the Somali people to independence. After being appointed to office as an SYL deputy in the political elections of 1956, he was called in the same year to form Somalia's first government, thus becoming the nation's first Prime Minister.
Re-elected in 1959, he was re-confirmed as Premier, and held for some time also the portfolios of Foreign Affairs, Interior and Grace and justice. In the government formed after Somalia's independence in July 1960, Mohamud was later appointed Foreign Minister.[3] In this capacity, he took part in many international conventions, in particular the United Nations General Assembly and the conferences in Addis Abeba, among other cities. Following the general election of March 1964, he returned to the National assembly as an SYL deputy for Beledweyne.
A career politician, Mohamud died in 1988 at the age of 66.
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Prime Minister of Somalia 1956 – 1960 |
Succeeded by Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal |
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- African/American Institute (1971). Africa report, Volumes 1-5. African/American Institute. http://books.google.ca/books?id=f1EJAQAAIAAJ.
- Touval, Saadia (1999). Somali Nationalism: International Politics and the Drive for Unity in the Horn of Africa. IUniverse. ISBN 1583484116.
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