Ali Khalif Galaid

Ali Khalif Galaid

Ali Khalif Galaydh (* 15. October 1941 in Las Anod , Somalia ; Somali: Ali Khaliif Galaydh ) is a Somali politician from the communities of Dolbohanta- Darod . He was Prime Minister of the Transitional Government of Somalia from October 2000 to October 2001 .

In the last democratically elected government of Somalia, Ali Khalif Galaid served in the Ministry of the Interior in the 1960s. He ran two large sugar companies in the 1970s before becoming Minister of Industry under Siad Barre in the 1980s . He left Mogadishu in 1982. From 1989 to 1996, Galaid taught at Syracuse University . As a delegate of his clan, he took part in the 1991 conference in Burao that led to Somaliland's declaration of independence .

Together with his wife, Galaid set up a telecommunications company in Dubai that at times employed around 3,000 Somalis.

In 2000 Galaid took part in the peace conference in Arta (Djibouti) , at which the Somali transitional government was formed, and then became its prime minister for around a year. This appointment was perceived as a provocation in Somaliland, which is striving for independence, as well as in Puntland , which as an autonomous region also claims the territory of the Dolbohanta.

Galaid now lives with his wife and children in Minnesota , teaches at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota and works in the Somali community there.

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• people.africadatabase.org ( Memento from January 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Minnesota Public Radio via Galaid, 2001
• Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs ( Memento June 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

1. ↑ ^{a b} Mark Bradbury: Becoming Somaliland , 2008, ISBN 978-1-84701-310-1 (pp. 126–127, 131)
2. ^ Minnesota Public Radio, 2000