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Ali Mahdi Muhammad

1939 - 2021

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Ali Mahdi Muhammad (Somali: Cali Mahdi Maxamed, Arabic: علي مهدي محمد) (1 January 1939 – 10 March 2021) was a Somali entrepreneur and politician. He served as President of Somalia from 26 January 1991 to 27 August 2000. The Cairo Agreement in December 1997 designated Ali Mahdi as president once again, a position he held until being succeeded by Abdiqasim Salad in the year 2000. Muhammad rose to power after a coalition of armed opposition groups, including his own United Somali Congress, deposed longtime dictator Siad Barre. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ali Mahdi Muhammad is the 12,803rd most popular politician (down from 11,194th in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from Somalia (down from 13th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Somali Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ali Mahdi Muhammad ranks 12,803 out of 19,576. Before him are Wihtred of Kent, Karl Vaino, Reginar IV, Count of Mons, Raymond IV, Count of Tripoli, Bernardo Berro, and Carlyle Glean. After him are Bako Sahakyan, Seán T. O'Kelly, Phraya Manopakorn Nititada, Navin Ramgoolam, Karl Arnold, and Lucius Cornelius Lentulus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Ali Mahdi Muhammad ranks 297. Before him are Ljiljana Petrović, Charles Jencks, Peter Mayle, Mike Castle, Roy Buchanan, and James Galway. After him are Renate Boy, Marie-Claire Blais, José Emilio Pacheco, Len Cariou, Nông Đức Mạnh, and Yury Glazkov. Among people deceased in 2021, Ali Mahdi Muhammad ranks 288. Before him are Pachín, József Csatári, Carmen Salinas, Bernd Kannenberg, Peter R. de Vries, and Carlyle Glean. After him are Charles Konan Banny, Marie-Claire Blais, Jan de Vries, Puneeth Rajkumar, Giuseppe Rotunno, and Friederike Mayröcker.

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In Somalia

Among people born in Somalia, Ali Mahdi Muhammad ranks 19 out of 58. Before him are Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed (1934), Muse Bihi Abdi (1948), Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein (1912), Nur Hassan Hussein (1937), Ali Mohammed Ghedi (1952), and Omar Sharmarke (1960). After him are Nuruddin Farah (1945), Ayaan Hirsi Ali (1969), Hassan Ali Khayre (1968), Abdi Farah Shirdon (1958), Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal (1928), and Hawa Abdi (1947).

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Among POLITICIANS In Somalia

Among politicians born in Somalia, Ali Mahdi Muhammad ranks 16. Before him are Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed (1934), Muse Bihi Abdi (1948), Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein (1912), Nur Hassan Hussein (1937), Ali Mohammed Ghedi (1952), and Omar Sharmarke (1960). After him are Hassan Ali Khayre (1968), Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal (1928), Abdiweli Gaas (1967), Sharif Sheikh Ahmed (1964), Abdirahman Ahmed Ali Tuur (1931), and Aden Madobe (1956).

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