Hassan Abshir Farah

Hassan Abshir Farah is a veteran Somali politician. He previously served as mayor of Mogadishu and interior minister of Puntland. From November 12, 2001 to December 8, 2003, he was also prime minister of Somalia. Farah is an MP in the Federal Parliament of Somalia.

Farah was born in 1945 in the former Italian Somaliland. He hails from the Ciise Maxahamud subclan of the Majeerteen Darod. Between 1961 to 1965, he attended secondary school in Mogadishu, the nations capital. He spent the next two years at the Egyptian Military Academy in Cairo, Egypt. Between 1980 and 1986, Hassan also studied at the Somali National University, where he obtained a degree in Law.

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