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Abdiqasim Salad Hassan (Cabdiqaasim Salaad Xasan)
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan (born 1941) was President of Somalia's Transitional National Government from August 2000 to 2004. He was elected at the Arta peace conference in Djibouti, which gave Somalia its first internationally recognised government since 1991. In 2004 he stood again, lost, and stood aside peacefully.
Abdiqasim Salad HassanAbdiqasim Salad · Cabdiqaasim Salaad Xasan
- Lived
- 1941 to today
- Known as one of
- Leaders and statesmen
- Era
- The Republic, 1960 to 1991; Rebuilding without a state, 1991 to 2012
- Sources
- 5 sources
Who is he?
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan was President of Somalia from 2000 to 2004, at the head of the Transitional National Government (TNG) (Wikipedia, Abdiqasim Salad Hassan). The European Union welcomed his election by the National Transitional Assembly at Arta and hoped it would help restore the Somali state (EU statement, UN document S/2000/916, September 2000).
Early life and study
He was born in 1941 in Galdogob, in the Mudug region. His family is Habar Gidir (Hawiye) (Wikipedia). He studied biology at Lomonosov Moscow State University and graduated in 1965 (same source).
In government before 1991
He held several posts in the government of Siad Barre. In the late 1980s he was second Deputy Prime Minister. From 1990 to 1991 he was the last Minister of the Interior (Wikipedia). After the government fell in 1991 he moved to Cairo (same source).
Elected at Arta, 2000
The Arta conference opened in Djibouti in May 2000 and produced a Transitional National Charter and a Transitional National Assembly (Wikipedia, Transitional National Government). Women took part as their own group, the Sixth Clan, for the first time (Right Livelihood, Asha Hagi Elmi). On 26 August 2000 it elected him President on the third ballot, with 145 votes to 92 for Abdullahi Ahmed Addou (Wikipedia). He was sworn in the next day and promised to bring the government home to Mogadishu (The New Humanitarian, 28 August 2000). See rebuilding, 2000 to 2006.
The Transitional National Government
His government held parts of Mogadishu. Much of the south was held by other groups (Wikipedia). In 2003 he left the talks in Kenya that aimed to form a new government, and he dismissed Prime Minister Hassan Abshir Farah after a dispute (same source).
Standing aside, 2004
In October 2004 the new Transitional Federal Parliament elected Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed as President. Abdiqasim had been a candidate and withdrew peacefully (Wikipedia). He later lived in Mogadishu (same source).
In short
President of the Transitional National Government from 2000 to 2004, chosen at the Arta conference in Djibouti.
Sources
- Wikipedia, Abdiqasim Salad Hassan · en.wikipedia.org
- EU statement, UN document S/2000/916, September 2000 · digitallibrary.un.org
- Wikipedia, Transitional National Government · en.wikipedia.org
- Right Livelihood, Asha Hagi Elmi · rightlivelihood.org
- The New Humanitarian, 28 August 2000 · thenewhumanitarian.org
Abdiqasim Salad HassanAbdiqasim Salad · Cabdiqaasim Salaad Xasan
- Lived
- 1941 to today
- Known as one of
- Leaders and statesmen
- Era
- The Republic, 1960 to 1991; Rebuilding without a state, 1991 to 2012
- Sources
- 5 sources
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