# Suldaan Said Ahmed (Suldaan Saciid Axmed)

> Suldaan Said Ahmed (b.1993): first Somali-born Finnish MP, Finland's Horn of Africa peace envoy.

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## Who is he?

Suldaan Said Ahmed is a Finnish politician in the Left Alliance and a member of Helsinki City Council ([Wikipedia, Suldaan Said Ahmed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suldaan_Said_Ahmed)). He was born in Mogadishu on 12 February 1993 and moved to Finland in 2008 through family reunification (same source). He lived in Kontiolahti, North Karelia, before moving to Helsinki in 2011, and trained as a security guard and worked as a community worker (same source). See [Somalis in Finland](/en/diaspora/finland/).

## Parliament

He was elected to Helsinki City Council in 2017 and re-elected in 2021 ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suldaan_Said_Ahmed)). In September 2021 he entered the Finnish parliament for Helsinki, replacing Paavo Arhinmäki, and became the first Somali-born member; he was not re-elected in 2023 (same source).

## Peace mediation

In July 2022 he was appointed the Foreign Minister's Special Representative on Peace Mediation in the Horn of Africa ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suldaan_Said_Ahmed)). On 23 January 2024 Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen appointed him her Special Envoy on Peace Mediation in the Horn of Africa ([Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs](https://um.fi/current-affairs/-/asset_publisher/gc654PySnjTX/content/suldaan-said-ahmed-ulkoministerin-rauhanvalityksen-erityisedustajaksi-afrikan-sarven-alueelle-1)).

## Family

He is the brother of the footballers [Ahmed Said Ahmed](/en/people/ahmed-said-ahmed/) and Abdulkadir Said Ahmed ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suldaan_Said_Ahmed)).

## In short

Finland's first Somali-born MP, now its peace envoy for the Horn of Africa.

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