Abdiweli Mohamed Ali

Ali was born at Dhusamareb in the Galgadud region and educated at the Somali National University, Vanderbilt University, Harvard University and George Mason University.{cite:source/wikipedia-abdiweli-mohamed-ali-en} He settled in the United States and joined Niagara University in 2003, where he was an associate professor of economics when Somalia's president called him home.{cite:source/wikipedia-abdiweli-mohamed-ali-en}

Ali succeeded Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed as prime minister on 19 June 2011, under President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed.{cite:source/wikipedia-abdiweli-mohamed-ali-en} His premiership produced the "Roadmap for the End of Transition", the political process that set benchmarks toward permanent democratic institutions and the end of the transitional period in 2012; he left office on 17 October 2012 and sat briefly in the new Federal Parliament.{cite:source/wikipedia-abdiweli-mohamed-ali-en}

On 8 January 2014 Ali was elected president of Puntland, defeating the incumbent Abdirahman Mohamud Farole.{cite:source/wikipedia-abdiweli-mohamed-ali-en} His five-year administration launched a biometric fishery database, taxation and development programmes, road, airport and seaport projects, and the Galgala campaign against al-Shabaab; he lost the January 2019 election to Said Deni and handed over on 8 January 2019.{cite:source/wikipedia-abdiweli-mohamed-ali-en}

The sources disagree on his birth year: the Arabic article and Wikidata give 2 July 1965, the English infobox 2 July 1967; the record follows 1965 and keeps the variant in its notes.{cite:source/wikipedia-abdiweli-mohamed-ali-ar}{cite:source/wikidata-abdiweli-mohamed-ali}{cite:source/wikipedia-abdiweli-mohamed-ali-en}

On faith there is a single structured value and nothing else: Wikidata carries Islam on his item, the Arabic infobox's religion field is empty, and no text in any language discusses his religion or names a school.{cite:source/wikidata-abdiweli-mohamed-ali}{cite:source/wikipedia-abdiweli-mohamed-ali-ar} His faith is therefore entered as unknown.

The one succession edge in his record is the premiership: he succeeded Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed as prime minister in June 2011.{cite:source/wikipedia-abdiweli-mohamed-ali-en}

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