Musa Sudi Yalahow

Musa Sudi Yalahow (*?) ( Somali Muuse Suudi Yalaxoow ) is a warlord ( warlord ) in Somalia . He belongs to the clan of Abgal- Hawiye and operates with his militia in Mogadishu . In particular, he partially controls the lucrative Daynile Airport, which exists next to Mogadishu International Airport .

Role in the Somali civil war

Musa Sudi Yalahow is related to Ali Mahdi Mohammed , who with Mohammed Farah Aidid successfully led the Hawiye rebel organization United Somali Congress USC against the regime of Siad Barre and fell out with Aidid after the fall of Barres in 1991. When the Somali civil war broke out , Yalahow was deputy chairman of the USC faction led by Ali Mahdi Mohammed. Later he was temporarily supported by Somalia's neighboring country Ethiopia , which variously promoted warring parties in Somalia.

In 1998, Ali Mahdi Mohammed, the son of Mohammed Farah Aidid Hussein Aidid and Mohammed Afrah Qanyare tried to set up a joint administration in Mogadishu, which was fiercely opposed by Yalahow and others.

The transitional government of Somalia formed in 2000 initially rejected Musa Sudi Yalahow resolutely. In 2001, MSF workers were kidnapped by Yalahow fighters. In 2006 he joined the ARPCT , a US-backed loose alliance of warlords against the Union of Islamic Courts . In the course of the fighting between the Union and the ARPCT, Yalahow's militia occupied the Red Cross-run Kensaney Hospital. Thereupon demands were made to bring Yalahow before the International Criminal Court , which has not yet happened. On July 5, 2006, Yalahow withdrew from Mogadishu in the face of the Union's advance.

The transitional government was at odds over how to deal with the advancing Union of Islamic Courts. When Yalahow did not cease fighting between his militias and the Union despite requests to do so, Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Ghedi dismissed him because he was directed against the interim government, its peace initiatives and reconciliation efforts, and because his militias had further increased the violence and killed innocent civilians.

After the Union of Islamic Courts was ousted, Musa Sudi Yalahow returned to Mogadishu. On January 12, he and other warlords agreed to disarm their militias.