Ali Abdi Farah

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Ali Abdi Farah (born February 16, 1947 in Djibouti ) is a politician of the Rassemblement Populaire pour le Progrès (RPP), who was Foreign Minister of Djibouti between 1999 and 2005 .

Life

After attending high school and studying administrative science at the Regional Administrative Institute in Lyon (Institut Régional de l'Administration de Lyon) , which he completed with a Diplômé en Administration publique , Farah worked as a teacher between 1969 and 1972 and then worked abroad Service active. After serving as diplomatic attaché to President Hassan Gouled Aptidon and as head of the department for general administration and consular affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he was first class counselor at the embassy in Tunisia .

On June 8, 1995, Farah, who was also a member of the Executive Committee of the Rassemblement Populaire pour le Progrès (RPP), became Minister for Energy, Mining and Natural Resources (Ministre de l'Energie, des Mines et des Ressources Naturelles) in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Barkat Gourad Hamadou .

As a candidate for the RPP, he was elected to the National Assembly on December 19, 1997 in the fourth legislative period , where he represented the constituency of Djibouti after his re-elections on January 10, 2003 and February 8, 2008 .

As part of a cabinet reshuffle, he took over the post of Foreign Minister (Ministre des Affaires Etrangères) in the cabinet of Barkat Gourad Hamadou from Mohamed Moussa Chehem on May 12, 1999 and held this position in the cabinet of Prime Minister Dileita Mohamed Dileita until he was replaced by Mahamoud Ali Youssouf on May 22, 2005. As part of this government reshuffle in the Dileita cabinet, he himself took over the offices of Minister for Communication and Culture, Commissioner Minister for Post and Telecommunications and Government Spokesman (Ministre de la Communication et de la Culture, Charge des postes et des Télécommunications, porte parole du Gouvernement) He held these ministerial posts until 2011.

In the elections on February 22, 2013, he ran again for the National Assembly and was also elected as a member of the seventh legislature.

Web links

  • Entry ( memento of December 2, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) on the homepage of the National Assembly
  • Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly (page accessed December 5, 2014)
  • Entry in rulers.org

Individual evidence

  1. May 8, 1999 (rulers.org)
  2. ^ Foreign Minister of Djibouti
  3. May 22, 2005 (rulers.org)
  4. ^ Entry ( memento of February 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on the homepage of the National Assembly.