Hussein Kulmiye Afrah
Xuseen Kulmiye Afrax
Leadership of Somalia’s revolutionary council
Following the 1991 collapse, Kulmiye and other Hawiye officers were neither arrested nor expelled from Mogadishu.
A Somali police officer and politician who joined Barre’s regime after the 1969 coup. He became interior minister in 1970 and one of the revolutionary council’s vice-presidents in 1971. His career illustrates the military-police leadership’s control over state administration.
Career timeline
- 1945Joined the Italian colonial police
- 1950–1954Instructor and translator at the Mogadishu police school, then trained at the Rome officer academy
- 1960Aide-de-camp to President Aden Abdulle Osman
- 1970Interior minister (to 1974)
- 1971Vice-president of the Supreme Revolutionary Council
- 1976Vice-president and Politburo member of the Revolutionary Socialist Party
- 1987Deputy prime minister and national planning minister
- 1989Speaker of the People's Assembly (to 1991)