Mohammed Admiral

Background

He was born in Ethiopia, but attended secondary school in Mogadishu.

Education

He later went to Egypt where he graduated from the War College, and completed his military education in the Soviet Union.

Career

Afterwards, he was appointed commander of the Somali Navy and promoted to the rank of admiral. After the collapse of the central government in Somalia in 1991, he returned to the Somali Region in Ethiopia, where in 1998 he was chosen to be the leader of the ONLF at the Party Congress. In the later years, Admiral Osman and his supporters had been in a power struggle against a group led by the ONLF head of Planning and Research Department, Doctor Mohamed Sirad Dalool, who was assassinated March 2009.

Membership

After returning to Somalia, he was appointed a member of the central committee of the ruling Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party in the mid-1970s, then became chief of the party"s Political Bureau.

Connections

friends:

Admiral Osman