Mogadishu (Sunatimes) President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud born in Somali's urban village of Jalakhsi in Hiraah region in 1955 and graduated Somali National University in 1981 and was employed in the Ministry of education as a teacher / trainer Lafole Technical Secondary School where I teach students and train artisans. In 1984, he as a wife with children,
Hassan joined Technical
Teachers’ Training College as a lecturer and in 1986 became head of department
before I traveled to India to attend a master of technical education program
offered by Bhopal university in India. In 1988 upon my return to Somalia, I was
selected as a counterpart to a group of international experts working on
Upgrading Technical and Vocational Education of Somalia — a project implemented
by UNESCO. My main area of concentration in the project was undertaking the
research component of the project where I extensively travelled throughout
Somalia.
After the collapse of the Somali state, He worked with UNICEF as education
officer in south and central zone of Somalia in 1993. This task mainly involved
in reviving education sector in this zone. travelled extensively in the zone
researching the magnitude of the collapse in the education sector and
consulting the people on how to revive the sector as a community based endeavor
After the departure of the UNOSOM in 1995,
He mostly involved in civic
actions such as forming pressure groups on the political factions to reconcile.
The main activities engaged were attempting to open channels of communication
between and among the faction leaders in Mogadishu. Later on, this became the
seed for the formation and strengthening of the Somali civil society. As a
result, networks, coalitions and professional associations emerged in Mogadishu
one after the other.
After the Cairo agreement of 1997, He was member of a team that negotiated and
successfully dismantled the GREENLINE that divided Mogadishu into north and
south after the disastrous war of 1992.
In the last part of the 1990s, the conditions of the Somali youth was very
critical. Those graduated from the secondary schools were having limited
opportunities for higher learning and professional career development. As a
member of ex university lecturers’ forum, we conducted need assessment survey
in the market and identified the importance of establishing technical and
vocational centers which some of them later on became higher learning centers
such as universities.
As result, I became one of the founders of Somali Institute of Management and
Administration Development (SIMAD) in 1999. It was the first institute of its
kind since the collapse of the Somali state.
The main purpose of SIMAD
was to produce mid level management and administrative technicians for the post
conflict reconstruction of Somalia. he became the first dean of the institute
until I resigned in 2010. Currently SIMAD is a leading university in academics,
consultancy, research, and training in Somalia. Close 4,000 student are
registered in its undergraduate programs as of September 2011and more than
1,500 students graduated since 2002 at diploma and bachelor’s degree in various
disciplines.
In 2001, he joined Center for Research and Dialogue (CRD) as a researcher in
post conflict reconstruction of Somalia. I extensively traveled in south
central Somalia conducting research in the post conflict reconstruction issues
and local peoples’ priorities.
Later on he became a
principal researcher. In 2004, CRD appointed me as a focal point for the issues
related to the civil society strengthening. In consultation with other
prominent civil society members, he worked in establishing the Mogadishu
monthly forum, which became the first open neutral space for the public to
express their views regarding the pertinent issues of the time.
In late 2005, I became program coordinator in CRD. The civil society in
Mogadishu collectively appointed me to lead the formation of Somali civil
Society Forum — a conglomerate of networks, coalitions and action groups
engaged in different sectors. Since then the forum became a unified voice for
the Somali Civil Society.
In 2009 - 2010, he worked as consultant in the Ministry of Planning and
International Cooperation (MoPIC), Transitional Federal Government (TFG) in
establishing Somali Aid Coordination and Management Unit within the Ministry.
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The background of the new President of Somalia
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