Hassan Sheikh Mohamud

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (2013)

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud , also Hasan Sheikh Mohamud ( Somali Xasan Sheekh Maxamuud , Arabic حسن شيخ محمود Hasan Schaich Mahmud , DMG Ḥasan Šaiḫ Maḥmūd , born November 29, 1955 in Jalalaqsi ), is a Somali politician, former university dean and citizen activist. From 2012 to 2017 he was president of the country . Mohamud belongs to the Hawiye clan, which is located in southern and central Somalia. He previously worked for several national and international peace and development organizations. Unlike three-quarters of the members of the previous transitional government, he did not flee Somalia.

Life

Mohamud received primary and religious education in his native Jalalaqsi in the Hiiraan region. After he moved to the capital Mogadishu for further education in 1978 , he received a bachelor's degree in technology from the University of Mogadishu in 1981 . He was then sent by the Ministry of Education as a teacher and instructor to Lafoole Technical School, where he taught engineering students and artists. He later went to India and attended Bhopal University , where he took part in a master’s program in technical training in 1988 . Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has five siblings.

Career

After his return to Somalia in 1988, he was a member of a group of international experts in the process of reviewing technical and professional training throughout Somalia, a UNESCO project . Its main focus was the research component within the project.

After the collapse of the Somali state , Hassan Sheikh Mohamud initially worked from 1993 to 1995 as an education officer for UNICEF in the central and southern parts of the country. Its main task was to revitalize the education sector. He traveled extensively in the region to research the magnitude of the collapse in education. He advised the people extensively in their efforts to resuscitate in this area. In 1999 he co-founded the Somali Institute of Management and Administration (SIMAD), a cadre forge for future administrative elites of the country in Mogadishu . Subsequently, this institution continued to develop within Simad University with him as dean of the institution until 2010.

After the departure of the UNOSOM in 1995, Hassan Sheikh Mahmud was mainly involved in citizen actions, which, through civil pressure, called on the various political groups to reconcile. It was important to him to establish communication channels between the various faction leaders in Mogadishu. This later formed the basis for the rebuilding and strengthening of Somali civil society after the civil war. As a result, networks , coalitions and professional associations gradually emerged in Mogadishu . After the Cairo Declaration of 1997, he was a member of a team that successfully negotiated the dismantling of the "greenline" that divided Mogadishu into north and south after the devastating 1992 war.

politics

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud went into politics the following year and founded the independent Party for Peace and Development . In April 2011, all party members unanimously elected him as party chairman. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is close to the group al-Islah , the Somali equivalent of the moderate Yemeni Muslim Brotherhood .

On September 10, 2012, the Somali parliament elected Hassan Sheikh Mohamud as the new president. He surprisingly prevailed in a runoff election against the incumbent interim president Sharif Sheikh Ahmed .

On September 12, 2012, just two days after winning the elections, Hassan Sheik Mohamud was committed, but escaped, a suicide bombing. The Al-Shabaab militias confessed to the attack.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is the new President FAZ Online, September 10, 2012
2. ↑ Short biography , allAfrica.com, September 11, 2012 (en)
3. ^ The New President of Somalia, who is Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud? ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Al Shahid Network, September 11, 2012 (en)  
4. ^ The New President of Somalia, who is Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud? ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Al Shahid Network, September 11, 2012 (en)  
5. ^ The New President of Somalia, who is Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud? ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Al Shahid Network, September 11, 2012 (en)  
6. ↑ Cairo Declaration on Somalia (PDF; 18 kB), December 22, 1997 (en)
7. ↑ The 'green line' dividing Mogadishu The Independent Online, October 2, 1992 (en)
8. ^ The New President of Somalia, who is Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud? ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Al Shahid Network, September 11, 2012 (en)  
9. ↑ Professor elected as the new head of state. In: Tagesschau Online. September 11, 2012, archived from the original on February 12, 2013 ; accessed on February 8, 2016 . 
10. ^ "Suicide attack on new Somali president" , Die Zeit Online, September 12, 2012

literature

• Hassan Scheich Mohamud , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 45/2012 from November 6, 2012, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Commons : Hassan Sheikh Mohamud  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography on Facebook (English)