Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed was a Somali politician and former colonel in the Somali National Army. He was one of the founders of the Somali Salvation Democratic Front, as well as the Puntland state of Somalia, the latter of which he served as the first president. In 2004, Ahmed also helped establish the Transitional Federal Government, which he led as President of Somalia from 2004 until 2008.
Ahmed in 2006
Copies of Ahmed's autobiography Halgan iyo Hagardaamo: Taariikh Nololeed ("Struggle and Conspiracy: A Memoir") and other books on display at the 2012 Somali Culture Fair in Helsinki.
Galkayo Airport, renamed to Abdullahi Yusuf International Airport in honour of Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed.
Puntland, officially the Puntland State of Somalia, is a Federal Member State in northeastern Somalia. The capital city is the city of Garoowe in the Nugal region, and its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland had a population of 4,334,633 in 2016. Geographically to the west, Puntland lays claim to the intra-46th meridian territories that were outside European colonial rule during parts of the Scramble for Africa period.
One of the forts of the Majeerteen Sultanate (Migiurtinia) in Hafun
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, one of the founders of Puntland
Mohamud Muse Hersi
Abdirahman Farole