Abdullahi Sheikh Ismail
Somali politician (died 2021)
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Abdullahi Sheikh Ismail (Somali: Cabdullaahi Sheekh Ismaaciil, Arabic: عبد الله الشيخ إسماعيل) (died 7 May 2021) was a Somali politician.
Prime MinisterOmar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke
Born1940
Shalambood, Somalia
Abdullahi Sheikh Ismail عبد الله الشيخ إسماعيل | |
|---|---|
| Minister of Transport of Somalia | |
| Assumed office 12 January 2015 | |
| Prime Minister | Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1940 Shalambood, Somalia |
| Died | 7 May 2021 [1] |
| Party | Independent |
Abdulahi belongs to the Biimal clan of Dir. he worked as Translator to Somali parliament in 1960s, Somalia’s Ambassador to Tunis, and was later a member of SSNM front.
He previously served as a Deputy Prime Minister,[2] as well as a Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia.[3] On 12 January 2015, Ismail was appointed the new Minister of Transport of the Federal Government of Somalia by Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke.[4] He was 1st secretary, embassy, Cairo 1972. Ismacil was Consular (Belgium) & Amb to Yemen, United of America, USSR, Arab League, Tunis, 1978-1988. He became Deputy PM & Foreign Minister Before being appointed as the Chair of Somalia-Somaliland talks. He spoke Somali, Arabic, English and Italian.
