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Jama Mohamed Ghalib
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Jama Mohamed Ghalib (Somali: Jaamac Maxamed Ghalib, Arabic: جامع محمد غالب; 2 January 1933 – 26 April 2022) was a Somali writer, military leader, police chief and politician from Erigavo, Somalia.[2] He was a leading figure of the Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia.
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Life and career
Ghalib hailed from the Eidagale clan of the Isaaq clan family. He was a major general in the army of the Somali Republic,[3] and was later appointed the Police Commissioner of the Somali Democratic Republic.[4] Ghalib also held various ministerial and cabinet positions in the government of Somalia, including Secretary of Interior,[5] Minister of Labor and Social Affairs,[6] Minister of Local Government and Rural Development,[7] Minister of Transportation,[3] and Minister of Interior from 1974 to 1984.[8]
Ghalib, a politician from the north who believed in union with Somalia, was briefly detained by Somaliland authorities in August 2003. This resulted in a brief exchange of gunfire.[9]
After his retirement from politics, Jama wrote on Somali history.[10] He taught history, political science and public administration at universities in Mogadisho, including City University, Mogadisho.[11]
During the Ethiopian invasion and occupation of Somalia, Jama served as one of the two vice chairman of the Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia, the principal insurgent political opposition.[12]
Ghalib died in Djibouti on 26 April 2022, at the age of 89.[13][14]
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Books
- Somali Phoenix
- The Cost of Dictatorship: The Somali Experience
- Who is a Terrorist?[10] (First & Second Edition 2002 & 2005, respectively).
- Defending History[10] which was published in 2005
- Taariikhda Soomaaliya Xog-ogaalnimo in 2020
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