Dr. Mohamed Mohamud Guled Ga'modhere ( so, Maxamed Maxamuud Guuleed Gacmodhere, ar, محمد محموغعمدار) was
Somalia's
interior minister
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,
and formerly the Minister of Public Works and Housing. His portfolio was swapped on February 7, 2007, with that of
Hussein Mohamed Farah Aidid.
Biography
Nicknamed "long-handed" or "Gacmadheere," Guled was born in
Somalia in 1954 in the district of
Hobyo. As a child, he attended
Quranic schools
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and completed his elementary education in the
Mudug region.
Gacmadheere pursued his secondary education in
Syria
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, and then moved on to
Iraq and
Romania, where he eventually obtained Bachelor's, Master's and PHD degrees in the fields of
Economics and
Agriculture.
Besides Somali, he speaks
Arabic,
Italian,
Romanian
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**Romanians, an ethnic group
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and
English.
Gacmadheere began his professional career as a trader before moving on to politics. In the late 1980s, he was imprisoned by Somalia's then ruling military government for
dissent.
He was reportedly a leader of
Mogadishu's civil society groups, and opposed the armed factions led by warlords as well as the sectarian clan violence that had engulfed the nation after the collapse of the central government.
Transitional National Government (TNG)
Gacmadheere contended in the 2000 presidential elections held in
Djibouti, but eventually lost to
Abdikassim Salat Hassan. He was also for a brief period a political advisor to
Ali Khalif Galaid
Ali Khalif Galaydh ( so, Cali Khalif Galaydh, ar, علي خليف غلير) (15 October 1941 – 8 October 2020) was a Somali politician. He was the Prime Minister of the transitional Somalia administration from 8 October 2000 to 28 October 2001. ...
who at the time was Somalia's Prime Minister.
Transitional Federal Government (TFG)
Gacmadheere was initially appointed as Minister of Public Works and Housing. However, on February 7, 2007, his portfolio was swapped with that of
Interior Minister
An interior minister (sometimes called a minister of internal affairs or minister of home affairs) is a cabinet official position that is responsible for internal affairs, such as public security, civil registration and identification, emergency ...
Hussein Mohamed Farah Aidid,
making him the new Interior Minister.
On February 15, he blamed instability in Somalia on the "
terrorist attacks
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" conducted by members of the
Islamic Courts Union (ICU), a movement which declared itself the
Popular Resistance Movement (PRM). He announced that checkpoints were established by Somali and
Ethiopian forces to conduct searches for the
Islamists.
References
Ethnic Somali people
1954 births
Living people
Members of the Transitional Federal Parliament
Government ministers of Somalia
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