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Hussein Kulmiye Afrah

Xuseen Kulmiye Afrax
Communism Somalia Somalia 1920–1993

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)