Mohamoud Mohamed Gacmodhere

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Dr Mohamed Sheikh Mohamud Guled (Gacmadheere) — also Mohamed Mohamud Guled (Gamadere), Mohamoud Mohamed Gacmodhere, or Ga'amo Dhere— is currently Somalia's Interior Minister^[1], and formerly the Minister of Public Works and Housing; his portfolio was swapped on February 7, 2007, with that of Hussein Mohamed Farah Aidid. He is one of the distinguished Somali politicians in the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia.

Gacmadheere was born in 1954 in the district of Obbia. He attended Quranic schools and completed his elementary education in Mudug. He started his career as a trader and later on he became politician. Gacmadheere devoted his interest to political, social and economic studies. Besides Somali, he speaks Arabic, Italian, Romanian and English .

When he completed his secondary education in Syria, he went to Iraq and Romania where he took his Bachelor's, Master's and PHD degrees in the fields of Economics and Agriculture.

Gacmadheere was placed in prison by Somalia’s military regime in the late eighties, for his political activities in demanding the end of the dictatorship.

He was a notable champion of the civil society groups of Mogadishu and came against the culture of the armed factions led by the warlords and sectarian clan violence that engulfed the nation with the collapse of the central government.

[edit] Transitional National Government (TNG)

Gacmadheere contended in the 2000 presidential elections held in Djibouti, losing to Abdikassim Salat Hassan.

Gacmadheere, was for a brief period the political advisor to Ali Kahalif Galayr who was the TNG PM.

[edit] Transitional Federal Government (TFG)

He was initially appointed as Minister of Public Works and Housing.

On February 7, 2007, his portfolio was swapped with that of Interior Minister Hussein Mohamed Farah Aidid.^[1]

On February 15, he blamed instability in Somalia on the "terrorist attacks" conducted by members of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), a movement which declared itself the Popular Resistance Movement (PRM). He announced that checkpoints were established by Somali and Ethiopian forces to conduct searches for the Islamists.^[2]