Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein ( so, Sheekh Mukhtaar Maxamed Xuseen, ar, الشيخ محمد حسين مختار‎; December 9, 1912 – June 12, 2012) was the Speaker of the Parliament of Somalia, and briefly an Acting

President of Somalia The president of Somalia ( so, Madaxaweynaha Soomaaliya) is the head of state of Somalia. The president is also commander-in-chief of the Somali Armed Forces. The president represents the Federal Government of Somalia, Federal Republic of Somal ...

in 1969.

Early life

Hussein was born into a

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family (part of the larger Rahaweyn clan), in the central town of

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in the Bakool region.

Politics

In 1946, Hussein joined the burgeoning, nationalist party of the ''Somali Youth Club'' (which later changed its name to the

Somali Youth League The Somali Youth League (SYL) ( so, Ururka Dhalinyarada Soomaaliyeed رابطة الشباب الصومالي, it, Lega dei Giovani Somali or ''Lega Somala della Gioventù''), initially known as the Somali Youth Club (SYC), was the first politi ...

). He served the SYL's head office in what was then known as Upper Jubba, which included several current regions of Southwestern Somalia. He died in Nairobi, Kenya in 2012 at 99 years old. He was accorded a state funeral by the government in Mogadishu, Somalia, and was buried there on June 15, 2012.

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