Hussein Kulmiye Afrah
Hussein Kulmiye Afrah (Somali: Xuseen Kulmiye Afrax , Arabic أفراح حسين; * 1920 ; † before 2007) is a Somali politician and general .
Afrah completed a police training at an Italian academy in Rome before 1945 during the Italian colonial era of Italian Somaliland . From 1950 to 1954 he was an instructor at the Mogadishu Police School . From 1960, after Somalia gained independence, he was adjutant to the first President of Somalia, Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, and was promoted to major general.
Afrah had been a member of the Central Committee of the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party since 1976 . He later served as the Vice President of the Somali Democratic Republic in the era of Siad Barre , who ruled from 1969 to 1991, and was the second President of Somalia . After the fall of the Siad Barre government and the outbreak of civil war in Somalia , Afrah, like many other politicians and military officials , was neither arrested nor expelled.
literature
- Lidwien Kapteijns: Clan Cleansing in Somalia; The Ruinous Legacy of 1991 . Scansom Publishers, 2012, ISBN 978-0-8122-4467-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Abdulahi Osman A., Issaka K. Souaré: Somalia at the crossroads: challenges and perspectives in Reconstituting a failed state . Adonis & Abbey, 2007, ISBN 978-1-905068-59-3 , pp. 98 .
- ↑ The defeat of Siad Barre ( Memento of the original from October 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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| SURNAME | Afrah, Hussein Kulmiye |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Afrax, Xuseen Kulmiye (Somali); أفراح حسين (Arabic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Somali politician and military |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1920 |
| DATE OF DEATH | before 2007 |