Hanad Zakaria Warsame
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Hanad Zakaria Warsame | |
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In office 14 April 2006 – 8 July 2008 | |
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Born | Mogadishu, Somalia | 16 October 1952
Died | 8 July 2008 Jijiga, Ethiopia | (aged 55)
Hanad Zakaria Warsame (October 16, 1952 – July 8, 2008) was a doctor, born to a Somali father and an Ethiopian mother. He was the 1st President of and former senior congressman of the ONLF from 1989 until his assassination on July 8, 2008.
Hanad grew up in Somalia with his father and twin brother. His father Mahmoud Aden Warsame's mother is the daughter of Yusuf Dheere Mohamed Sugaal founder of the Western Somali Liberation Front. He joined the ONLF army encouraged by his Pan-Somalist father but Hanad later quit and pursued medical studies and became doctor in Jijiga.
He co founded EVIFF with who is the daughter of an Ethiopian Pan-Somalist named Facilides. She succeeded him on 10 July 2008.
Sources[]
- BBC world news article, 2008
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- Somalian anti-communists
- People murdered in Ethiopia
- 1952 births
- 2008 deaths
- People from Mogadishu
- Assassinated Somalian politicians
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- Somalian murder victims
- Somali independence activists
- 20th-century Somalian physicians