Ahmed-Idriss Moussa

Moussa was a nurse at the Peltier Hospital of Djibouti, then worked at the Banque de l'Indochine.

A nationalist militant, he participated in the founding of the Popular Movement Party (PMP), which he headed. He was elected to the Territorial Assembly on June 23, 1957, on the list of Mahmoud Harbi. He was elected to the French National Assembly in November 1962, supported by the PMP against Hassan Gouled Aptidon and Ahmed Dini. He sat until 1967 on the benches of the Union for the new Republic (UNR). In 1963, he signed the Arta agreement rejecting foreign claims on French Somaliland. In 1966 he would again support the independence movements.

At independence, he became a deputy. In 1981, he founded an opposition party with Ahmed Dini and Abdallah Mohamed Kamil. He was then arrested. In 1999, he ran in the presidential election against Ismail Omar Guelleh.

Moussa died on 5 June 2020, at the age of 87.^[1]