Ibrahim Megag Samatar
Ibrahim Megag Samatar | |
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| 1st Speaker of the Somaliland House of Representatives | |
| In office 1991–1993 | |
| Preceded by | Post established |
| Succeeded by | Ahmed Abdi Mohamed |
| Personal details | |
| Born | c. 1939 |
| Died | 31 January 2011 |
Ibrahim Megag Samatar (aka Ibrahim Maygaag Samatar; c. 1939 – 31 January 2011) was a Somali politician and economist.
He is said to have been born in Hargeisa, British Somaliland,[1] but he was born in Qullad, Ethiopia, a town between Hargeisa and Aware, Ethiopia.[2]
He studied at Yale University and the University of California, Riverside in the United States, and returned to Somalia[2] to become a bureaucrat in the Ministry of Finance. From 1970 to 1971, he was Minister of Finance[3] in the cabinet of Siad Barre, who came to power after the coup d'état. After serving as Minister of Industry, he defected to the United States in 1981 when he was Ambassador to West Germany.
After his exile, he served as the North American representative of the Somali National Movement.[2] He chaired the Somaliland House of Representatives at the 1991 conference in Burao,[2] and was instrumental in Somaliland's independence.[4] He was elected to the House of Representatives at the National Reconciliation Grand Council in Borama in 1993, but soon resigned and retired from politics.[2] He came to Japan in 1997 and worked as a researcher at Josai International University.[5]
Personal life
[edit]His passport gave his date of birth as 20 February 1942 but is believed to have been born between 1939 and 1941.[2] The BBC reported he was born in 1939.[1] He died on 31 January 2011 at his home in Tōgane, Chiba Prefecture.[4]
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b "Taariikh-nololeedkii Ibrahim Meygaag". BBC. 13 February 2011. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f Jama, Jama Musse (23 November 2018). Somaliland: The Way Forward Vol 1. Ponte Invisible (Redsea Cultural Foundation). p. 82. ISBN 9788888934181. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
- ^ Mukhtar, Mohamed Haji (2003). "Historical Dictionary of Somalia". epdf.pub. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6604-1.
- ^ a b "悼む：元ソマリア財務相、イブラヒム・メガグ・サマターさん＝1月31日死去・68歳". 河北新報. 3 April 2010. Retrieved 3 April 2010.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Takano Hideyuki (2013). 謎の独立国家ソマリランド [Somaliland, the mysterious independent state]. p. 24. ISBN 9784860112387.