Mohamed Farah Dalmar Yusuf
Military leader of Western Somali Liberation Front
Military leader of Somali National Movement
Personal details
BornHaji Salah
Died28 July 1988
Haqaya Malaas, Togdheer, Somaliland
NationalitySomali
Children1 girl

Mohamed Farah Dalmar Yusuf "Mohamed Ali" (Somali: Maxamed Faarax Dalmar Yuusuf "Maxamed Cali", Arabic: محمد فارح دلمر يوسف "محمد علي"; died 28 July 1988) was a Somali military commander and revolutionary.[1] He is known for his leadership within Western Somali Liberation Front, Afraad and later the Somali National Movement.[2]

Yusuf acquired his first military experience in the ranks of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He also had taken part in the Lebanese Civil War.[1] Upon his return to the Somali Republic he became the military leader of the Western Somali Liberation Front and was at the forefront of the 1977 invasion of Ethiopia by Somali forces.

In 1979 Mohamed Ali became the head of the Fourth Brigade of the Western Somali Liberation Front known as Afraad.[1]

Yusuf's is considered the first military commanders of SNM, and one of the first officers to cross the Somali-Ethiopian border and establish a permanent base for rebels in Ethiopia.[3] He belonged to the Habar Yoonis sub clan of the Garhajis Isaaq.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Prunier, Gerard (2021). The Country That Does Not Exist: A History of Somaliland.
  2. ↑ Yusuf, Seyid Ahmed. Milicsiga Dagaalkii Dhexmaray Xukuumaddii Maxamed S. Barre iyo Jabhaddii SNM.
  3. ↑ Yuusuf, Boobe. Dharaaraa Ina Soo Maray.
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