Abdiqasim Salad Hassan
| Abdiqasim Salad Hassan عبدي قاسم صلاد حسن |
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| 5th President of Somalia | |
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In office August 27, 2000 – October 14, 2004 |
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| Prime Minister |
Ali Khalif Galaydh Osman Jama Ali Hassan Abshir Farah Muhammad Abdi Yusuf |
| Preceded by | vacant (3 January 1997 – 27 August 2000) |
| Succeeded by | Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed |
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| Born |
1 January 1941 Galdogob, Mudug, Italian Somaliland |
| Alma mater | Lomonosov Moscow State University |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan (
pronunciation ahb-dool-KAH-seem SAH-laht HAH-sahn;Somali: Cabdiqaasim Salaad Xasan;Arabic: عبدي قاسم صلاد حسن; born on January 1, 1941) is a Somali politician. He was President of Somalia from 2000 to 2004, and previously served as Interior Minister and Finance Minister in the government of Mohamed Siad Barre.
Hassan was born (1 January 1941) in the town of Galdogob, situated in the north-central Mudug region of the former Italian Somaliland. His family hails from the Habar Gidir sub-clan of the Hawiye.
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