Mohamoud Ahmed Nur

Mohamoud Ahmed Nur (* 1956 ) is a Somali politician and was Mayor of Mogadishu from autumn 2010 to February 2014 .

Life

exile

Only emigrated after the beginning of the Somali civil war . In his almost 20 years in exile he worked a. a. as a personnel consultant for the City of London , where he also ran as a City Councilor for the Labor Party .

Mayor of Mogadishu

Ahmed Nur put two public gardens and a women's basketball team through two public gardens and a women's basketball team in the war-torn Mogadishu. He also started citizens' groups against the garbage and tried to reactivate the street lights.

He receives regular threats from the Islamist organization Al-Shabaab .

In February 2011 he organized a music festival. This resulted in shootings in which Somali soldiers shot three civilians. This is said to have happened on the orders of his predecessor Mohammed Omar Habeb Dhere . He was then arrested by soldiers from the African Union .

In connection with the 2011 hunger crisis in the Horn of Africa , Ahmed only banned foreign members of non-governmental organizations from entering the areas ruled by al-Shabaab . These are not safe for the helpers.

On February 27, 2014, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud dismissed him from the office of mayor. His successor was Hassan Mohamed Hussein (also Mungab ) .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Johannes Dieterich: Lichtblicke in Somalia. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . June 7, 2011, accessed June 7, 2011 . 
2. ↑ The Mayor of Hell Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Issue 16, 2012, accessed on August 28, 2013.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Christian Putsch: How Somalia's citizens defy the warriors of God. In: The world . June 15, 2011, accessed June 17, 2011 . 
4. ↑ Too dangerous to help. In: the daily newspaper . September 18, 2011, accessed September 19, 2011 . 
5. ↑ Shafi'i Mohyaddin: President Hassan appoints new mayor of Mogadishu. In: Hiiraan Online. February 28, 2014, accessed October 27, 2015 .