Mohamed Kahin Ahmed | |
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Minister of Interior | |
Assumed office 14 December 2017[1] | |
President | Muse Bihi Abdi |
Preceded by | Yasin Haji Mohamoud |
Chairman of Peace, Unity, and Development Party | |
Assumed office 21 August 2023 [2] | |
President | Muse Bihi Abdi |
Preceded by | Muse Bihi Abdi |
Personal details | |
Born | Burao, British Somaliland | 1 July 1953
Citizenship | Somalilander |
Political party | Peace, Unity, and Development Party |
Residence(s) | Hargeisa, Somaliland |
Alma mater | Odesa Military Academy Burao Technical Institute |
Mohamed Kahin Ahmed (Somali: Maxamed Kaahin Axmed) is a Somaliland politician and former military officer of the Somali National Movement Ahmed silaanyo the chairman of (SNM )appointed Mohamed kaahin SNM Commander-in-Chief of the Army, in April 1988. He is currently serving as the Minister of Interior of Somaliland since December 2017. He has been a prominent member of the Kulmiye Party since its foundation, and served as the deputy chairman of the party from July 2010 to December 2017.[3][4]
Mohamed Kahin Ahmed was born in Burao, capital of the Togdheer region of Somaliland. He completed his primary and Quranic education in Beer in southern Togdheer. He completed his higher education at Burao Technical Institute.[5] He belongs to the Habr Je'lo clan of the wider Isaaq clan-family.[6]
He joined the Somali National Army in 1970.[5] He served in the Somali military intelligence 26th Division base in Hargaisa.
Kahin served as the Somali National Movement's minister of defence and later on as the first Somaliland Minister of Defence in 1991.[7][8]