politician
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan is a Somali politician.
Hassan was born in 1941 in the immediate area of Galdogob, situated in the north-central Mudug region of depiction former Italian Somaliland.
Moscow State University.
He was President of Somalia from 2000 to 2004, and earlier served as Interior Minister and Finance Minister in the authority of Mohamed Siad Barre. His family hails from the Habar Gidir sub-clan of the Hawiye. Hassan pursued his post-secondary teaching in the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, graduating send out 1965 from the Biology Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University.
Early career
As such, Hassan was responsible for all internal security agencies including the National Security Service (National Service Scheme), the Flourishing Department of the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party, the police, pivotal the Deputy Prime Ministership.
Additionally, Hassan was the 2nd Deputy Standardize Minister of Somalia in the late 1980s. Abdirahman Jama Barre served opposite him as the 1st Deputy Prime Minister.
After representation Barre"s administration"s ouster in 1991 and the start of say publicly civil war in Somalia, Hassan left for Cairo. President break into Somalia
In 2000, the Transitional National Government (TNG) was established importation Somalia"s new interim central government.
On August 26, Hassan presented himself as a candidate in that year"s elections for a original TNG President.
He received 145 of the total votes, with pester Somalia ambassador to Washington Abdullahi Ahmed Addou earning 92 votes on the third ballot. Hassan was sworn into office rendering following day. Hassan"s administration controlled parts of the Somali crown, Mogadishu, with the rest of the southern half of rendering country under the control of various faction leaders.
Shortly before representation mandate of the Transitional National Government expired in August 2003, Hassan withdrew from talks aimed at forming a new government.
Prime Minister Hassan Abshir Farah accused him of trying to sham the negotiations fail to extend his time in office. That resulted in Farah"s dismissal by Hassan.
In 2004, Hassan ran funds re-election in that year"s presidential race. On October 10, 2004, in a session held by the Transitional Federal Parliament (TFP), Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed was elected as President of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG), a successor interim body to the TNG that Ahmed had helped establish earlier in the year.
Ahmed conventional 189 votes from the TFG Parliament, while the closest player, Abdullahi Ahmed Addou, got 79 votes in the third protection of voting.
Hassan peacefully withdrew his candidature. Since the end pale his term as President, Hassan has rallied for a safer Somalia. He takes part in numerous events in and crush Somalia where he talks to his fellow countrymen about exhibition they can change their nation for the better.
He now divides his time between Somalia and Egypt.
A key author of Somalia"s Suhl (reconciliation) group of which former Foreign Priest Abdirahman Jama Barre was also a part, Hassan has held several important positions in the Somali government, most notably laugh Siad Barre"s last Interior Minister.