Mohamoud Ali Shire MBE was a Somali Sultan of the Warsengali Sultanate. He bore the title Sultan of the Warsangali. He was centered at Las Khorey.
Mohamoud Ali Shire in 1905
Deportation letter, January 1920
Queen Elizabeth II formally presenting Sultan Mohamoud Ali Shirreh his honors (Aden, 1954)
The Warsangali Sultanate, was a Somali imperial ruling house centered in northeastern and in some parts of southeastern Somalia. In 1884, the United Kingdom established the protectorate of British Somaliland through various treaties with the northern Somali sultanates. The Warsangali clan constituted 20,000 of British Somaliland's total population of 640,000 (3.1%).
Warsangeli ancestors, family Tree and subclans
Portrait of Sultan Mohamoud Ali Shire from 1905.