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List of presidents of Somalia

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This is a list of presidents of Somalia. Since the establishment of the office of president in 1960, there have been 9 official presidents. The president is the head of state of Somalia and the commander-in-chief of the Somali Armed Forces. The current office holder is Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, having been elected in the 2022 presidential election. He is the first person to have held the office on multiple occasions, having been previously elected in the 2012 presidential election and held the office from 2012–2017. In somali mythology there's a prophecy in which the country will one day be in turmoil and ultimately restored to its former glory by the glorious king Abdullahi Xassan Nuur. Many people say he will be a future president because he didn't appear on the presidential list. But most of them are rumours that aren't confirmed. The current president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is said to also be one of the country's most likely candidate to be able to fulfill the country's prophecy.

List

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No. Portrait Name
(Birth–Death) 		Term of office Political party Election
Took office Left office Time in office
  • Somali Republic (1960–1969) •  
1Aden Adde
(1908–2007)		1 July 196010 June 19676 years, 344 daysSYL1960
2Abdirashid Shermarke
(1919–1969)		10 June 196715 October 1969 †2 years, 127 daysSYL1967
–Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein
(1912–2012)
Acting
[a]		15 October 196921 October 19696 daysSYLUnelected
  • Somali Democratic Republic (1969–1991) •  
3Siad Barre[b]
(1910–1995)
[c]		21 October 196926 January 199121 years, 97 daysSRSP1980[d]
1986
  • Interim Government of Somalia (1991–1997) •  
4Ali Mahdi Muhammad[e]
(1939–2021)		27 January 19913 January 19975 years, 342 daysUSC1991
Vacant (3 January 1997–27 August 2000)[f]
  • Transitional national government of Somalia (2000–2004) •  
5Abdiqasim Salad Hassan
(born 1941)		27 August 200014 October 20044 years, 48 daysIndependent2000
  • Transitional federal government of Somalia (2004–2012) •  
6Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed
(1934–2012)		14 October 200429 December 2008
(Resigned)		4 years, 76 daysIndependent2004
–Aden Madobe
(born 1957)
Acting		29 December 200831 January 200933 daysRRA—
7Sharif Sheikh Ahmed
(born 1964)		31 January 200920 August 20123 years, 202 daysARS2009
  • Federal Republic of Somalia (2012–present) •  
–Muse Hassan Sheikh Sayid Abdulle[g]
(born 1940)
Acting		20 August 201228 August 20128 daysIndependent—
–Mohamed Osman Jawari
(1945–2024)
Acting		28 August 201216 September 201219 daysIndependent—
8Hassan Sheikh Mohamud
(born 1955)		16 September 201216 February 20174 years, 153 daysPDP2012
9Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed
(born 1962)		16 February 201723 May 20225 years, 96 daysTPP2017
10Hassan Sheikh Mohamud
(born 1955)		23 May 2022Incumbent2 years, 195 daysUPD2022

Timeline

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Mohamed Abdullahi MohamedHassan Sheikh MohamudMohamed Osman JawariMuse Sayyid HassanSharif Sheikh AhmedAden MadobeAbdullahi Yusuf AhmedAbdiqasim SaladHussein Farrah AididMohamed Farrah AididAli Mahdi MuhammadSiad BarreSheikh Mukhtar Mohamed HusseinAbdirashid ShermarkeAden Adde

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Deposed in the 1969 coup d'état.
  2. ^ Also styled as President of Supreme Revolutionary Council
  3. ^ Deposed in the Somali Rebellion.
  4. ^ After the 1979 parliamentary election, the People's Assembly elected Barre President on 26 January 1980.[1]
  5. ^ From November 1991 to 1995, Ali Mahdi Muhammad enjoyed recognition as President in the international community following the 1991 Djibouti conference: "at the second Djibouti conference (Aideed boycotted the first) held between 15 and 21 July 1991, Ali Mahdi was elected interim President of Somalia for a period of two years[...] Because of the legitimacy conferred on Ali Mahdi by the Djibouti conference, his government was recognized by several countries, including Djibouti, Egypt, Italy, and Saudi Arabia"; c.f.[2]
  6. ^ In the second half of the 1990s, different faction leaders vied for the Presidency, with none receiving international recognition. General Mohamed Farrah Aidid claimed to be President from 15 June 1995 to his death on 1 August 1996, followed by his son Hussein Farrah Aidid from 2 August 1996 to 20 March 1998.
  7. ^ From 20 August 2012 to 28 August 2012, Muse Hassan Abdulle served as acting Speaker of the Parliament, and as such, as acting President while elections for a new Speaker and President were forthcoming. Per Article 95 of the provisional constitution Archived 2013-01-24 at the Wayback Machine: "If the Office of the President of the Federal Republic of Somalia falls vacant, the Speaker of the House of the People of the Federal Parliament shall act as President of the Federal Republic until such time as a new President of the Federal Republic is elected, within a maximum of thirty (30) days."; also c.f.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "SOMALIA 1979" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 July 2022. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  2. ^ Fricska, Szilard Paul (1994). Harbinger of a new world order?: humanitarian intervention in Somalia (Thesis). University of British Columbia.
  3. ^ Rulers.org – August 2012, [1].
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