Abdullahi Issa

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Trust Territory of Somalia
In office
29 February 1949 – 7 July 1960
Preceded byInaugural
Succeeded byMuhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal
Personal details
Born1921 (1921)
Italian Somalia
Died1988(1988-00-00) (aged 66–67)
Rome, Italy
Political partySomali Youth League

Abdullahi Issa Mohamud (

trusteeship period
, serving from February 29, 1949, to July 7, 1960.

Biography

Issa was born in 1921 in the southern town of Afgooye.[2][3][4][5]

Nicknamed "Bidaar",

madrassah).[5] When the Second World War broke out, he was still a student.[6]

Issa later relocated to the port of

Italian Somalia in the early 1940s, Issa was relieved from his duties. He then embarked on a business career.[5]

After the turmoil of the war years, Issa joined the Somali Youth League (SYL) at its onset. He typified the Somali political elite of the period, as he was "young (age 38), intelligent, largely self-educated, confident, and determined".[7] He quickly rose through the ranks to become one of the party's leaders. In 1948, he was appointed to the SYL's central committee, and eventually as its Secretary-General.[5]

Issa later went to Paris and New York as an SYL delegate to proclaim the right of the Somali people to independence. From 1950 to 1954, he represented the SYL at the United Nations Trusteeship Council. After being appointed to office as an SYL deputy in the political elections of 1956, he was called in the same year to form Somalia's first government, thus becoming the nation's first Prime Minister.

Re-elected in 1959, he was re-confirmed as Premier, and held for some time also the portfolios of Foreign Affairs, Interior and Grace and justice. In the government formed after Somalia's independence in July 1960, Issa was later appointed Foreign Minister.

Addis Abeba, among other cities. With the conclusion of the general election of March 1964, Issa returned to the National Assembly as an SYL deputy for Beledweyne
.

A few years later, the Supreme Revolutionary Council (SRC) seized power. The new military government subsequently appointed Issa as Somalia's Ambassador to Sweden in 1974. He held the position until early 1983, when he resigned from public office after a long career in politics.[2]

Issa spent his retirement years in Rome, Italy. He died there in March 1988, and was transported to Mogadishu for burial.[2]

See also

Notes

  1. ISBN 978-0-471-62406-6
    .
  2. ^
    ISBN 9789772004997
    .
  3. ISBN 9781905068593
    .
  4. ISBN 0936508302
    .
  5. ^ a b c d Hempstone, Smith (1961). The New Africa. Faber and Fabe. p. 145.
  6. ^ Europa Publications Limited, p.925.
  7. ^ African and American Institute
  8. ^ Touval, p.113

References

Political offices
Preceded by
Inaugural Interim Somali Government
 Prime Minister of Interim Somali Government Under UN trusteeship
1949 – 1960 		Succeeded by
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke
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