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Farah Sh. Abdulkadir Mohamed
Farah Sh. Abdulkadir Mohamed ( so, Faarax Sheekh Cabdulkaadir Maxamed, ar, فرح الشيخ عبد القادر محمد) is a Somali politician. From January to February 2015, he served as the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs of Somalia. He was also briefly the Minister of Presidential Affairs. Personal life Mohamed was born in Somalia. He hails from the Reer Aw Xasan clan. Career Federal Parliament On 20 August 2012, Mohamed was among the legislators nominated to the newly established Federal Parliament of Somalia. Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Appointment On 17 January 2014, Mohamed was named Somalia's new Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs by Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed. He succeeded Abdihakim Mohamoud Haji-Faqi at the position. Jubaland agreement On 28 August 2013, the autonomous Jubaland regional administration signed a national reconciliation agreement in Addis Ababa with the Federal Government of Somalia. Endor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jalalaqsi
Jalalaqsi (Jalalassi) is a town in the south-central Hiran province of Somalia. It is situated on the Shebelle River, between Buuloburde and Jowhar. Demographics Jalalaqsi has a population of around 60,800 inhabitants. The broader Jalalaqsi District has a total population of 80,724 residents. History In the mid-1980s there were four refugee camps with a population of around 85,000 Somalis in Jalalaqsi. At that time it was the third largest settlement in Somalia after Mogadishu and Hargeisa.De Montclos & Kagwanja, Journal of Refugee Studies Vol. 13, No. 2 2000: Refugee Camps or Cities? The Socio-economic Dynamics of the Dadaab and Kakuma Camps in Northern Kenya Climate Notable residents *Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud Hassan Sheikh Mohamud ( so, Xasan Sheekh Maxamuud, ar, حسن شيخ محمود; born 29 November 1955) is a Somali politician who has served as the president of Somalia since May 2022. He is the founder and current chairman of the Union for ..., President of Som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Addis Ababa
Addis Ababa (; am, አዲስ አበባ, , new flower ; also known as , lit. "natural spring" in Oromo), is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia. It is also served as major administrative center of the Oromia Region. In the 2007 census, the city's population was estimated to be 2,739,551 inhabitants. Addis Ababa is a highly developed and important cultural, artistic, financial and administrative centre of Ethiopia. Addis Ababa was portrayed in the 15th century as a fortified location called "Barara" that housed the emperors of Ethiopia at the time. Prior to Emperor Dawit II, Barara was completely destroyed during the Ethiopian–Adal War and Oromo expansions. The founding history of Addis Ababa dates back in late 19th-century by Menelik II, Negus of Shewa, in 1886 after finding Mount Entoto unpleasant two years prior. At the time, the city was a resort town; its large mineral spring abundance attracted nobilities of the empire, led them to establish permanent settlement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke
Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke (; so, Cumar Cabdirashiid Cali Sharmaarke, ar, عمر شرماركي) (born 18 June 1960), popularly known as Omar Sharmarke, is a Somali diplomat and politician. From 2009 to 2010, he was the Prime Minister of Somalia. He subsequently briefly served as Somalia's Ambassador to the United States in 2014. In December 2014, Sharmarke was reappointed Prime Minister of Somalia. His term ended on 1 March 2017, and he was replaced by Hassan Ali Khaire. Personal life Sharmarke was born in 1960 in Mogadishu, situated in the southeastern Banaadir province of Somalia. He is the son of the former second President and first Prime Minister of Somalia, Abdirashid Ali Shermarke, who was assassinated in 1969, and Rukiyo Mo’alim Daahir, the daughter of the well-known Somali Islamic scholar Mo’alim Dahir Ali Boss. His family belongs to the Majeerteen Harti Darod clan, and originally hails from Somalia's northeastern Puntland region. Sharmarke studied at Carleton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salim Aliyow Ibrow
Salim Aliyow Ibrow ( so, Saalim Caliyoow Ibroow, ar, سالم علييوو ايبرو) is a Somali politician. He briefly served as the Acting Prime Minister of Somalia in 2007. From January to October 2014, Ibrow was also the Minister of Environment and Livestock. He is the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs of Somalia. Career Early career Ibrow served as the interim Prime Minister of the Transitional Federal Government from October 29, 2007 to November 24, 2007, following the resignation of Premier Ali Mohammed Ghedi. - ''Worldstatesmen.com'' Prior to his interim promotion, Ibrow served as Ghedi's deputy premier. His portfolio changed several times over numerous cabinet reshufflings over the years, including the ministries of Finance, Livestock, Culture and Higher Education. Ibrow was one of the MPs contending for the Parliamentary Spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Convention On The Rights Of The Child
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (commonly abbreviated as the CRC or UNCRC) is an international human rights treaty which sets out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children. The Convention defines a child as any human being under the age of eighteen, unless the age of majority is attained earlier under national legislation. Nations that have ratified this convention or have acceded to it are bound by international law. When a state has signed the treaty but not ratified it, it is not yet bound by the treaty's provisions but is already obliged to not act contrary to its purpose. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, composed of 18 independent experts, is responsible for supervising the implementation of the Convention by the states that have ratified it. Their governments are required to report to and appear before the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child periodically to be examined on their progress regard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asha Gelle Dirie
Asha Gelle Dirie ( so, Caasha Geelle Diriye, ar, آشا جيلي ديري) is a Somali politician and civil society activist. From 2005 to 2012, she served as the Minister of Women Development and Family Affairs of the autonomous Puntland regional state in northeastern Somalia. Dirie is also the founder and Executive Director of The Asha Gelle Foundation (TAG Foundation). Additionally, she served as the Chairperson of the federal Constitutional Review and Implementation Commission between 2014 and 2015. Personal life Dirie was born in 1966 in Galkayo, the capital of the north-central Mudug region of Somalia. She hails from the Maxamuud Saleebaan sub-clan of the Majeerteen Harti Darod. For her post-secondary education, Dirie earned a degree from the Somali National University's Lafoole College of Education in Mogadishu. Career Early career Upon graduation, Dirie initially served as a teacher in the national capital. From 1984 to 1988, she worked for Somali Women Education. Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puntland
Puntland ( so, Puntland, ar, أرض البنط, it, Terra di Punt or ''Paese di Punt''), officially the Puntland State of Somalia ( so, Dowlad Goboleedka Puntland ee Soomaaliya, ar, ولاية أرض البنط الصومالية), is a Federal Member State in northeastern Somalia. The capital city is the city of Garoowe in the Nugal region, and its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Geographically to the west, Puntland lays claim to the intra-46th meridian territories that were outside European colonial rule during parts of the Scramble for Africa period. Puntland is bordered by Somaliland to its west, the Gulf of Aden in the north, the Guardafui Channel in the northeast, the Indian Ocean in the southeast, the central Galmudug region in the south, and Ethiopia in the southwest. There are several major geographical apexes in Puntland, including the Cape Guardafui, which forms the tip of the Horn of Africa, Ras Hafun the easternmost place on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmed Mohamed Islam
Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed Islaam Madobe ( so, Sheekh Axmed Maxamed Madoobe) is the President of the Jubaland State of Somalia. Background Islamic Courts Union As a member of Islamic Courts Union (ICU) Madobe was governor of Jubaland, in 2006. When the ICU was overthrown by Ethiopian National Defense Force he fled towards the Kenyan border when he was wounded, and later received medical treatment at an Ethiopian hospital. He was later arrested by the Ethiopians. When the Somali parliament expanded to 550 MPs he was elected as an MP in January 2009 and released from the Ethiopian prison. On 4 April 2009 he announced his resignation from the parliament. Jubaland presidency On 15 May 2013, Madobe was elected president of Somalia's southern Jubaland region. Somali Federal Government contention over election The government of Jubaland, the Independent Election Committee of Jubaland and the Jubaland electorate, the federal constitution and the state constitution recognized Madobe as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east and northeast, Kenya to the south, South Sudan to the west, and Sudan to the northwest. Ethiopia has a total area of . As of 2022, it is home to around 113.5 million inhabitants, making it the 13th-most populous country in the world and the 2nd-most populous in Africa after Nigeria. The national capital and largest city, Addis Ababa, lies several kilometres west of the East African Rift that splits the country into the African and Somali tectonic plates. Anatomically modern humans emerged from modern-day Ethiopia and set out to the Near East and elsewhere in the Middle Paleolithic period. Southwestern Ethiopia has been proposed as a possible homeland of the Afroasiatic langua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud ( so, Xasan Sheekh Maxamuud, ar, حسن شيخ محمود; born 29 November 1955) is a Somali politician who has served as the president of Somalia since May 2022. He is the founder and current chairman of the Union for Peace and Development Party. He was 2022 Somali presidential election, elected as President of the Federal Republic of Somalia on 15 May 2022, defeating the incumbent president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed. He previously served in the same position as the 8th president of Somalia from 2012 to 2017. A civil and political rights activist, Hassan was previously a university professor and Dean (education), dean at SIMAD University, which he co-founded. In April 2013, Hassan was named in the Time 100, ''Time'' 100, ''Time (magazine), Time'' magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. His efforts at advancing national reconciliation, anti-corruption measures, and socio-economic and security sector reforms in Somalia were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federal Government Of Somalia
The Government of Somalia (GS) ( so, Dowladda Soomaaliya, ar, حكومة الصومال الاتحادية) is the internationally recognised government of Somalia, and the first attempt to create a central government in Somalia since the Somali Civil War, collapse of the Somali Democratic Republic. It replaced the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia, Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia on 20 August 2012 with the adoption of the Constitution of Somalia. It officially comprises the Executive (government), executive branch of government, with the Parliament of Somalia, parliament serving as the Legislature, legislative branch. It is headed by the President of Somalia, to whom the Council of Ministers reports through the Prime Minister of Somalia, Prime Minister. After the collapse of the Somali Democratic Republic in 1991, there were no relations or any contact between the government of Somaliland, Somaliland government, which declared itself a country and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
