Ali Aref Bourhan (Arabic: علي عارف برهان; born 1934) is a Djiboutian politician.
Ali Aref Bourhan | |
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علي عارف برهان | |
_-_53Fi5639_(cropped).jpg) Bourhan in 1971 | |
| 1st President of the Government Council of the French Territory of the Afars and the Issas | |
| In office Jul 7, 1967 – Jul 29, 1976 | |
| Succeeded by | Abdallah Mohamed Kamil |
| 4th Vice President of the Government Council of French Somaliland | |
| In office 8 June 1960 – Oct 19 1966 | |
| Preceded by | Ahmed Dini Ahmed |
| Succeeded by | Abdallah Mohamed Kamil |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1934 (age 89–90) Tadjoura, French Somaliland |
| Political party | UNI |
Early years
editBourhan was born in 1934 in the coastal city of Tadjoura, situated in eastern present-day Djibouti. He hailed from a prominent local Afar family, the Abourbakers. He also has a Gadabursi grandmother from Zeila.[1][2][3]
As a young man in the 1950s, Bourhan began his professional career as a teacher. He also ran the town's Afar and Somali youth club.[2]
Political career
editBourhan entered politics under the aegis of Ibrahim Sultan, the then Sultan of Tadjoura. Through the latter, he was introduced to Mahmoud Harbi, the Vice President of the Government Council of French Somaliland and a former comrade of the Sultan in the French army during the World War II campaign. Bourhan would subsequently serve in the territory's representative council as a Harbist politician, strongly supporting Harbi's independence-oriented platform. In 1958, Harbi disappeared from the local political scene,[2] having been exiled to Cairo by the French authorities.[4] He died in a plane crash two years later under mysterious circumstances.[4][5]
In 1960, with the fall of the ruling Dini administration, Bourhan assumed the seat of Vice President of the Government Council of French Somaliland, representing the UNI party.[1][2] He would hold that position until 1966. This was because he announced his to resign decision on Radio Djibouti that he would devote himself more fully to preparing for the next referendum that will determine the political future.[6]
In July of the following year, he was elected President of the Government Council of the French Territory of the Afars and the Issas. Bourhan served in that capacity until July 29, 1976, the eve of Djibouti's independence. He was succeeded in office by Abdallah Mohamed Kamil.[1]
Private life
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He becomes engaged on May 15, 1971 in Carcassonne with Régine Soulé.They divorced in 1980. Ali Aref married second time on May 14, 2014 in Kempeski Palace with the young Djiboutian Ms. Aref Filsane.
Childs
editAli Aref Bourhan got a son, Karim Aref Bourhan born in Djibouti the February 7, 1980.
See also
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Notes
edit- ^ a b c cahoon, ben. "Djibouti". www.worldstatesmen.org. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
- ^ a b c d Dubois, Colette (2002-10-30). "Jacques Foccart et Ali Aref". Les Cahiers du Centre de Recherches Historiques. Archives (in French) (30). doi:10.4000/ccrh.472. ISSN 0990-9141.
- ^ MORIN, Didier (2007). Pount: Corne de l’Afrique – Arabie du Sud. Sociétés en Développement dans l’Espace et dans le Temps (SEDET). p. 157. ISBN 978-2-9524964-1-4.
- ^ a b United States Joint Publications Research Service, Translations on Sub-Saharan Africa, Issues 464-492, (1966), p.24.
- ^ Barrington, Lowell, After Independence: Making and Protecting the Nation in Postcolonial and Postcommunist States, (University of Michigan Press: 2006), p.115
- ^ "La démission de M. Ali Aref devrait faciliter le dénouement de la crise politique" (in French). 1966-10-19. Retrieved 2024-09-06.
References
edit- Jacques Foccart et Ali Aref (in French)
External links
edit- Jacques Foccart et Ali Aref (in French)