Hassan Ali Khaire

Hassan Ali Khaire (born April 15, 1968 in Galguduud , Somalia) is a Somali politician. He was the Prime Minister of his country from March 1, 2017 to July 25, 2020 .

Life

Khaire came to the Norwegian municipality of Vestre Slidre as a refugee in 1989 . He has both Norwegian and Somali citizenship.

In 2002 he started working for the refugee aid organization Flyktninghjelpen . There, Khaire became the person responsible for Somalia in 2006 and finally regional representative for the Horn of Africa . He also worked as an executive at the British oil company Soma Oil and Gas.

On February 23, 2017, he was appointed Prime Minister by the then newly elected President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed and was subsequently confirmed by the Somali Parliament on March 1, 2017 . On July 25, 2020, he was ousted by the Somali parliament in a vote of no confidence . President Mohamed then temporarily installed Khaire’s former deputy Mahdi Mohamed Guled as the new prime minister. One of the reasons was, on the one hand, a dispute with President Mohamend over his plans to postpone the upcoming elections, which Khaire did not support. On the other hand, he was accused of not having taken sufficient measures to improve the security situation.

Individual evidence

↑ Mistillit mot Somalia's «norske» Minister of State. In: Aftenposten. July 25, 2020, accessed on July 25, 2020 (Norwegian Bokmål).
↑ Frode Sætran: Nordmann ny statsminister i Somalia. In: Aftenposten. February 23, 2017, accessed on July 25, 2020 (Bokmål in Norwegian).
↑ Mohamed Ibrahim: Hassan Ali Khaire, an Oil Executive, Is Picked to Be Somalia's Prime Minister . In: The New York Times . February 23, 2017, ISSN 0362-4331 (English, nytimes.com [accessed July 25, 2020]).
^ Abdi Latif Dahir: The fate of fragile Somalia is now in the hands of a remarkably young, diverse parliament. In: Quartz Africa. March 1, 2017, accessed on July 25, 2020 .
↑ Somalia's parliament ousts prime minister in no-confidence vote . In: Reuters . July 25, 2020 ( reuters.com [accessed July 25, 2020]).

personal data
SURNAME	Khaire, Hassan Ali
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Somali-Norwegian politician and former Prime Minister of Somalia
DATE OF BIRTH	April 15, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH	Galguduud , Somalia

[1] Mistillit mot Somalia's «norske» Minister of State. In: Aftenposten. July 25, 2020, accessed on July 25, 2020 (Norwegian Bokmål).

[2] Frode Sætran: Nordmann ny statsminister i Somalia. In: Aftenposten. February 23, 2017, accessed on July 25, 2020 (Bokmål in Norwegian).

[3] Mohamed Ibrahim: Hassan Ali Khaire, an Oil Executive, Is Picked to Be Somalia's Prime Minister . In: The New York Times . February 23, 2017, ISSN 0362-4331 (English, nytimes.com [accessed July 25, 2020]).

[4] Abdi Latif Dahir: The fate of fragile Somalia is now in the hands of a remarkably young, diverse parliament. In: Quartz Africa. March 1, 2017, accessed on July 25, 2020 .

[5] Somalia's parliament ousts prime minister in no-confidence vote . In: Reuters . July 25, 2020 ( reuters.com [accessed July 25, 2020]).