Mustafa Muhumed Omar (; born 1972), also called Cagjar, is an somali politician who is the current president of the

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and also the Deputy Chairman of the Somali Democratic Party, a member of Ethiopia’s newly formed

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led by

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, the sitting Prime Minister of

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. Mustafa was appointed to the acting presidency on 22 August 2018 becoming the 13th president of

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following a political crisis where the Ethiopian military forced Abdi Mohamoud Omar to resign after a stand-off with the central government. Omer has previously worked as a teacher activist, and humanitarian in food security (pastoral and agro-pastoral livelihoods), partnership, resource mobilization, and strategic planning roles in different

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. He previously served as an advisor to the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia.

Life

Mustafa was born in 1972 in Aware, in the Jarar Mustafa attended primary and intermediate school in the Aware district of the Jarar region. His family relocated to Degahbur where he started secondary school at Degahbur. He attended

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where he received an undergraduate degree in economics. He also received a Master's in Science in Agricultural Economics from

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Other venture

Mustafa became a teacher at the Jijiga college and was later promoted to vice deputy assistant. He served as deputy of the Somali regional education office. He worked with international non-governmental institutions in different positions such as Save the Children, Oxfam and OCHA. During work in the

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, he was a critic of the ex-president of the Somali Region.

References

Living people Somalian politicians 1972 births Alumni of Imperial College London {{Ethiopia-politician-stub