Dr Abdiqasim Salad Hassan (Somali: Cabdiqaasim Salaad Xasan, Arabic: عبدي قاسم صلاد حسن) (born 1941) is a prominent Somali politician. He was President of Somalia from 2001 to 2004, and previously served as Interior Minister and Finance Minister in the government of Mohamed Siad Barre.
Hassan was born in the town of Gaddo in the north-central mudug province of Somalia. He pursued his post-secondary education in the USSR, graduating in 1965 from ...
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Dr Abdiqasim Salad Hassan (Somali: Cabdiqaasim Salaad Xasan, Arabic: عبدي قاسم صلاد حسن) (born 1941) is a prominent Somali politician. He was President of Somalia from 2001 to 2004, and previously served as Interior Minister and Finance Minister in the government of Mohamed Siad Barre.
Hassan was born in the town of Gaddo in the north-central mudug province of Somalia. He pursued his post-secondary education in the USSR, graduating in 1965 from the Biology Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University.
He is from the Habar Gidir sub-clan of the Hawiye centered in Mogadishu, and has a brother named Abdi Salad Hassan who is also active in Somali politics.
A key founder of Somalia's Suhl (reconciliation) group of which former Foreign Minister Abdirahman Jama Barre was also a part, Hassan has held several important positions in the Somali government, most notably as Siad Barre's last Interior Minister. As such, Hassan was responsible for all internal security agencies including the...
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