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Ahmed Ibrahim Awale (Axmed Ibraahim Cawaale)
Ahmed Ibrahim Awale is a Somali environmentalist, botanist and author from Adadlay, east of Hargeisa. He chairs the Somaliland Biodiversity Foundation and the organisation Candlelight, and lectures at the University of Hargeisa. He described the aloe species Aloe sanguinalis in 2014, and a scorpion, Pandinurus awalei, was named after him in 2020.
Ahmed Ibrahim AwaleAxmed Ibraahim Cawaale · Awale
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- The Republic, 1960 to 1991; Rebuilding without a state, 1991 to 2012; Who holds power, 2012 to now
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Who is he?
Ahmed Ibrahim Awale is a Somali environmentalist and author with several decades of experience (Wikipedia, Ahmed Ibrahim Awale). He chairs the Somaliland Biodiversity Foundation and Candlelight for Environment, Education and Health (same source). He lectures on environmental science at the University of Hargeisa (same source).
Early life
He was born in Adadlay, a village 95 km east of Hargeisa, near the mountain Gaan Libah (Wikipedia). He studied at the Somali National University (same source). See Somaliland, 1991 to 2026.
Botany
In 2014 he found a new aloe species, Aloe sanguinalis, growing wild near Alala Adka (Wikipedia). The botanical author abbreviation "Awale" refers to him (same source). In March 2024 he helped discover and describe another species, Aloe kaysei (same source). In 2020 a scorpion species, Pandinurus awalei, was named after him (same source).
Writing
He has written books in English on the archaeology and natural history of Somaliland, and works in Somali (Wikipedia). They include Environment in Crisis: Selected Essays on the Somali Environment (same source).
In short
A Hargeisa environmentalist and botanist who has described new aloe species and leads the Somaliland Biodiversity Foundation.
Sources
- Wikipedia, Ahmed Ibrahim Awale · en.wikipedia.org
Ahmed Ibrahim AwaleAxmed Ibraahim Cawaale · Awale
- Known as one of
- Public life today
- Era
- The Republic, 1960 to 1991; Rebuilding without a state, 1991 to 2012; Who holds power, 2012 to now
- Sources
- 1 sources
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