Ali Yusuf Kenadid (, ; died 1927) was a Somali

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and the second ruler of the Sultanate of Hobyo.

History

Ali Yusuf was born into a Majeerteen

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family. His father,

Yusuf Ali Kenadid, was the founder of the Sultanate of Hobyo centered in present-day northeastern and central

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. The polity was established in the 1870s on territory carved out of the ruling Majeerteen Sultanate (Migiurtinia). Helen Chapin Metz, ed., ''Somalia: a country study'', (The Division: 1993), p.10. Ali Yusuf's brother, Osman Yusuf Kenadid, would go on to invent the

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writing script for the

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.In an attempt to advance his own expansionist objectives, Kenadid ''père'' in late 1888 entered into a treaty with the

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, making his realm an Italian

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. The terms of the agreement specified that Italy was to steer clear of any interference in the sultanate's administration. However, the relationship between Hobyo and Italy soured when the elder Kenadid refused the Italians' proposal to allow a

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contingent of troops to disembark in his Sultanate so that they might then pursue their battle against the Dhulbahante garad and Darawiish monarch Diiriye Guure and his emir, Mohammed Abdullah Hassan's Dervish forces.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Keenadid, Ali Yusuf Ethnic Somali people Somali sultans 20th-century Somalian people Darod 1927 deaths

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