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.
Activities and affiliations
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1971–1989
Somalia state institutionsVice-President of the Supreme Revolutionary Council, Vice-President
Government and administration -
1976–
Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party
Political and party leadership -
Somalia state institutionsMinister of the InteriorMain
Security, intelligence and policing
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)
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State and economic-policy context
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.
The nationalized modern sector was only part of the economy. Much livestock remained privately owned. Farming and fishing settlements for drought-displaced people faced practical constraints and differences in livelihoods.