The burial in his Galkayo hometown was attended by the Somali President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali and several other TFG and regional leaders from Puntland and Galmudug states of Somalia.

President Sharif was among hundreds of mourners attending Yussuf’s burial at the El-Jifle cemetery in Galkayo town.

The plane carrying the Coffin bearing the remains of Yussuf arrived at Adan Adde International Airport in Mogadishu on Sunday morning and was later flown to Galkayo town for burial.

President Sharif led the Janaza prayer congregation, one of the Islamic burial rituals performed on the deceased persons before laying them to rest.

Yussuf was accorded a State funeral with reports of unknown number of gun salutes in Galkayo during the burial procession.

Yussuf died on February 23 aged 77 at Sheikh Zayed hospital in UAE after long illness.

He was the first president of Somalia’s interim government after he was chosen as president by a parliament set up in 2004 after years of peace talks in the neighbouring Kenya.

He resigned in December 2008 after a fierce power struggle with his then Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein, who was backed by parliament after Mr .Yussuf tried to sack him.