Somalis abroad in public life
Suldaan Said Ahmed (Suldaan Saciid Axmed)
Suldaan Said Ahmed (born 12 February 1993) is a Mogadishu-born Finnish politician for the Left Alliance and the first Somali-born member of the Finnish parliament, where he sat for Helsinki from September 2021 to April 2023. Since January 2024 he has been the Finnish foreign minister's Special Envoy on Peace Mediation in the Horn of Africa.
Suldaan Said AhmedSuldaan Saciid Axmed
- Lived
- 1993-02-12 to today
- Known as one of
- Somalis abroad in public life
- Places
- Muqdisho and Banaadir
- Era
- Rebuilding without a state, 1991 to 2012; Who holds power, 2012 to now
- Sources
- 2 sources
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). 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.
Parliament
He was elected to Helsinki City Council in 2017 and re-elected in 2021 (Wikipedia). 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). 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).
Family
He is the brother of the footballers Ahmed Said Ahmed and Abdulkadir Said Ahmed (Wikipedia).
In short
Finland's first Somali-born MP, now its peace envoy for the Horn of Africa.
Sources
- Wikipedia, Suldaan Said Ahmed · en.wikipedia.org
- Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs · um.fi
Suldaan Said AhmedSuldaan Saciid Axmed
- Lived
- 1993-02-12 to today
- Known as one of
- Somalis abroad in public life
- Places
- Muqdisho and Banaadir
- Era
- Rebuilding without a state, 1991 to 2012; Who holds power, 2012 to now
- Sources
- 2 sources
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