Ali Yusuf Kenadid ( so, Cali Yuusuf Keenadiid, ar, علي يوسف كينايديض) was a

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ruler. He was the second

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of the

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Ali Yusuf was born into a

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family. His father,

Yusuf Ali Kenadid Yusuf Ali Kenadid ( so, Yuusuf Cali Keenadiid; 1837 - 28 september 1911) was a Somali Sultan. He was the founder of the Sultanate of Hobyo in the 1870s. Along with Sultan Mohamoud Ali Shire of the Warsangali Sultanate and King Osman Mahamuud o ...

, was the founder of the

centered in present-day northeastern and central

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Somalia

. The polity was established in the 1870s on territory carved out of the ruling

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(Migiurtinia).Helen Chapin Metz, ''Somalia: a country study'', (The Division: 1993), p.10. Ali Yusuf's brother,

Osman Yusuf Kenadid Osman Yusuf Kenadid ( so, Cusmaan Yuusuf Keenadiid; ar, عثمان يوسف كيناديد), was a Somali poet, writer, teacher and ruler. Born in Ceel Huur in 1889, he went on to create the Osmanya alphabet for writing Somali language, Somali. ...

, would go on to invent the

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writing script for the

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. In an attempt to advance his own expansionist objectives, Kenadid ''père'' in late 1888 entered into a treaty with the

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, making his realm an Italian

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.The Majeerteen Sultanates The terms of the agreement specified that

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was to steer clear of any interference in the sultanate's administration. However, the relationship between Hobyo and Italy soured when the elder Kenadid refused the Italians' proposal to allow a

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contingent of troops to disembark in his Sultanate so that they might then pursue their battle against the Somali religious and nationalist leader

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forces. Viewed as too much of a threat by the Italians, Sultan Kenadid was eventually exiled to

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Aden

in Yemen and then to

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, as was his son Ali Yusuf, the heir apparent to his throne.

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The Majeerteen Sultanates

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