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Mohamed Osman Irro
, birth_date = 1941 , death_date = October 26, 1978 (aged 37yrs) , birth_place = Bokh, Somalia , death_place = Mogadishu, Somalia , placeofburial = Xero Dhiig , placeofburial_label = , image = , caption = , nickname = "Cirro" , allegiance = , branch = Somali National Army , serviceyears = , rank = Colonel Gaashanle Sarre , commands = , battles = Ogaden War , alma_mater = , laterwork = Mohamud Osman Irro ( so, Maxamed Ismaan Cirro, ar, محمد عثمان إرو; 1941– October 26, 1978), also known as Mohamud Sheikh Osman Irro (Moxamud Shiikh Cismaan Cirro)Mohamed Osman Omar, ''The road to zero: Somalia's self-destruction'', (HAAN Associates: 1992), p.125. or Mohamoud Sheikh Osman Irro (Maxamuud Sheekh Cismaan Cirro), was a prominent Somali military figure. Biography A Colonel in the Somali National Army (SNA), Mohamud Sheikh Osman Irro was among the military officials that were exec ...
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Bokh (woreda)
Boh (Somali language, Somali: ''Bookh''), popularly known as '''Iid'', is one of the Districts of Ethiopia, woredas in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Werder Zone, Boh is located in the easternmost part of the country, at the point of the angle jutting into Somalia; on its other sides, this woreda is bordered on the southwest by Geladin (woreda), Geladin, and on the northwest by Danot (woreda), Danot. The easternmost point of this woreda is the Extreme points of Ethiopia, easternmost point of Ethiopia. Towns in Boh include Boh, Ethiopia, Boh, Dameercad, Galhamur, Dogob, Wanaagsan, Saaxdheer, Domco and Marqaan weyne, Qoriley, Gumburka Cagaare, Turgasangas, Toga Erigoo. History The historic name of the Boh or Bookh region was Ciid. Before 1960, there was little water available during the dry season in Boh; although the Geladi wells and other shallow wells in their vicinity were used, they did not always yield sufficient water in the dry season to serve as a reliable permanen ...
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Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed ( so, Cabdulaahi Yuusuf Axmed, ar, عبدالله يوسف أحمد‎; 15 December 1934 – 23 March 2012) was a Somali politician and former colonel in the Somali National Army. He was one of the founders of the Somali Salvation Democratic Front, as well as the Puntland State of Somalia, the latter of which he served as the first president. In 2004, Ahmed also helped establish the Transitional Federal Government, which he led as President of Somalia from 2004 until 2008. Personal life Abdullahi Yusuf was born on 15 December 1934 in Galkayo, situated in the north-central Mudug region of Somalia. The city was at the time part of Italian Somaliland. His family hailed from the Omar Mahmoud sub clan of the larger Majeerteen Harti Darod clan. For his post-secondary education, Ahmed studied law at the Somali National University in Mogadishu. He later moved abroad to pursue Military Studies.New People Media Centre (Nairobi, Kenya), ''New people'', Issues 94–1 ...
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Somalian Military Leaders
Somali may refer to: Horn of Africa * Somalis, an inhabitant or ethnicity associated with Greater Somali Region ** Proto-Somali, the ancestors of modern Somalis ** Somali culture ** Somali cuisine ** Somali language, a Cushitic language ** Somali, plural of Somalo, former Somali currency * Somali Plate, a tectonic plate which covers the eastern part of Africa *Somalia, a nation in the Horn of Africa * Somaliland, a self-declared state considered internationally to be a part of Somalia * Somali Region, a Somali-inhabited region of Ethiopia * North Eastern Province (Kenya), a Somali-inhabited region of Kenya Other uses * Somali, a member of the Somalia Battalion, a pro-Russian military group. * , a British destroyer * Somali cat, a cat breed * Somali, a character in the manga series ''Somali and the Forest Spirit'' * Somali Peninsula, a region of East Africa, also known as 'The Horn of Africa' See also * * * Proto-Somali Proto-Somalis were the ancient people and ancestors of Soma ...
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1978 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd government). * January 6 – The Holy Crown of Hungary (also known as Stephen of Hungary Crown) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held since World War II. * January 10 – Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, a critic of the Nicaraguan government, is assassinated; riots erupt against Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Somoza's government. * January 18 – The European Court of Human Rights finds the British government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture. * January 22 – Ethiopia declares the ambassador of West Germany ''persona non grata''. * January 24 ** Soviet Union, Soviet satellite Kosmos 954 burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. ** ...
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Muse Hassan Sheikh Sayid Abdulle
Muse Hassan Sheikh Sayid Abdulle ( so, Muuse Xasan Sheekh Cabdulle, ar, موسى حسن الشيخ سعيد عبد الله; born 1940), also known as Muse Sayyid Hassan or Mussa Hassan Sheikh Abdulle, is a senior Somali military figure and politician. He has been the acting president of Somalia and interim speaker of the Federal Parliament. He is Somalia's ambassador to Italy. Biography His name is transliterated in various ways including ''Musa Hassan Abdulle''. He was born in 1940 in Shilabo, Ogaden and hails from Bahgeri sub-clan of the larger Ogaden Absame Kuumade Darod clan. Career Military career Abdulle was a prominent member of the Somali National Army. He was among the first three Somali cadets to graduate from the Military Academy of Modena (Accademia Militare di Modena), located in Modena, northern Italy. In 1985, Abdulle received a fellowship to attend the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. He graduated from the institution the following year. Fede ...
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Yussuf Salhan
Yussuf is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adi Yussuf (born 1992), Tanzanian footballer * Ayila Yussuf (born 1984), Nigerian football player * Bashir Yussuf (born 1905), Somali religious leader See also * Joseph * Yusuf Yusuf ( ar, يوسف ') is a male name of Arabic origin meaning "God increases" (in piety, power and influence).From the Hebrew יהוה להוסיף ''YHWH Lhosif'' meaning "YHWH will increase/add". It is the Arabic equivalent of the Hebrew name ... * Yusuff * Yussuff {{surname ...
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Abdullah Mohamed Fadil
Abdullah Mohamed Fadil ( so, Cabdallah Maxamed Fadhil, ar, عبد الله محمد فاضل; died January 1991), also known as Abdalla Mohamed Fadil, was a prominent Somali military figure. Biography Fadil was the son of a Yemeni musketeer from Taiz governorate with the Sultanate of Hobyo and a Majeerteen mother of the Nuh Jabrail family. Both parents served under Sultan Ali Yusuf Kenadid, heir to Sultan Yusuf Ali Kenadid. Fadil was the first Joint Chiefs of Staff and Commander of the Somali Armed Forces (SAF), and was a senior member of the Supreme Revolutionary Council (SRC). A Major General in the military, he would also hold number of portfolios as a Minister, including as the Minister of Industry and Commerce, Minister of Health, Minister of Ports and Marine Transport, during the Siad Barre administration. In the 1970s Abdullah Mohamed Fadil and Muhammad Ali Samatar advised President Barre to select top Frunze graduates to lead the campaign in Ogaden against Ethiopia to ...
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Mohammad Ali Samatar
Mohamed Ali Samatar ( so, Maxamed Cali Samatar; 1 January 193119 August 2016), also known as Ali Samatar was a Somali politician and lieutenant general. A senior member of the Supreme Revolutionary Council, he also served as the Prime Minister of Somalia from 1 February 1987 to 3 September 1990. Early years Samatar was born in 1931 in Kismayo, Somalia. For his post-secondary education, Samatar studied at the Frunze Military Academy in the former Soviet Union (Военная академия им. М. В. Фрунзе), an elite institution reserved for the most qualified officers of the Warsaw Pact armies and their allies. Somali Democratic Republic A lieutenant general in the Somali National Army (SNA), Samatar was a key figure in Somali politics throughout the 1970s and 1980s. During the Ogaden campaign of the late 1970s, he led all SNA units and their Western Somali Liberation Front (WSLF) affiliates. He also served as national Defense Minister from 1980 to 1986. Samatar w ...
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Abdullahi Matukade
Abdullahi (also spelled Abdollahi and Abdillahi) is a male given name also common as a surname. It is a variation of the Arabic personal name Abdullah. The variant ''Abdullahi'' is most common in Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, and Ethiopia. Abdullahi may refer to: is a male given name, it is a variation of the Arabic language (عبدالله), meaning “God’s servant.” Given name *Abdullahi Ahmed Addou (born 1936), Somali politician *Abdullahi Ahmed Irro, Somali military General * Abdillahi Deria, d(1967) former Sultan of the Isaaq clan *Abdullahi Afrah (died 2008), Somali leader of UIC *Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed (born 1934), President of Somalia *Abdullahi Sudi Arale, Somali Guantanamo detainee *Abdullahi dan Fodio (c. 1766–1828), Sultan of Gwandu and scholar * Abdallahi ibn Muhammad (1846–1899) Mahdist Ansar ruler of Sudan *Abdullahi Ibrahim, Nigerian politician *Abdullahi Sheikh Ismail, Somali politician *Abdullahi Issa (1922–1988), first prime minister of Somalia *Abdul ...
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Abdullahi Ahmed Irro
Abdullahi Ahmed Irro ( so, Cabdullaahi Axmed Cirro, ar, عبد الله أحمد إرو, June 7, 1937 - January 24, 2022), also known as Abdullahi Ahmad Yousef Irro,''ARR: Arab report and record'', (Economic Features, ltd.: 1978), p.602. was a prominent Somali military professor and general. He helped establish the National Academy for Strategy. Early years Irro was born in the southern town of Kismayo, Somalia, to a Majeerteen Harti Darod family. Irro's father Ahmed Yussuf Irro and two of his uncles served in the Italian colonial army. They were among Migiurtinia's youth who were forcibly conscripted after the fall of the ruling northern Majeerteen Sultanate (Migiurtinia) and Sultanate of Hobyo (Obbia) during the annexation campaign against the " Northern Sultanates', a fascist expedition from 1922 to 1929 under the command of Cesare Maria De Vecchi of the National Fascist Party led by Benito Mussolini. Irro's mother, Zhabah Hosh Ellie, was the daughter of an aristocratic wazir ...
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Coup D'état
A coup d'état (; French for 'stroke of state'), also known as a coup or overthrow, is a seizure and removal of a government and its powers. Typically, it is an illegal seizure of power by a political faction, politician, cult, rebel group, military, or a dictator. Many scholars consider a coup successful when the usurpers seize and hold power for at least seven days. Etymology The term comes from French ''coup d'État'', literally meaning a 'stroke of state' or 'blow of state'. In French, the word ''État'' () is capitalized when it denotes a sovereign political entity. Although the concept of a coup d'état has featured in politics since antiquity, the phrase is of relatively recent coinage.Julius Caesar's civil war, 5 January 49 BC. It did not appear within an English text before the 19th century except when used in the translation of a French source, there being no simple phrase in English to convey the contextualized idea of a 'knockout blow to the existing administratio ...
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Somali Democratic Republic
The Somali Democratic Republic ( so, Jamhuuriyadda Dimuqraadiya Soomaaliyeed; ar, الجمهورية الديمقراطية الصومالية, ; it, Repubblica Democratica Somala) was the name that the socialist military government gave to Somalia under President Major General Mohamed Siad Barre, after seizing power in a coup d'état on 21 October 1969.J. D. Fage, Roland Anthony Oliver, ''The Cambridge history of Africa'', Volume 8, (Cambridge University Press: 1985), p.478.''The Encyclopedia Americana: complete in thirty volumes. Skin to Sumac'', Volume 25, (Grolier: 1995), p.214.Moshe Y. Sachs, ''Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations'', Volume 2, (Worldmark Press: 1988), p.290. The coup came a few days after a bodyguard assassinated Abdirashid Shermarke, the nation's second President. Barre's administration ruled Somalia for the next 21 years until Somalia collapsed into civil war in 1991. History Supreme Revolutionary Council Alongside Barre, the Supreme Revolutionary ...
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