Ruler · 1934 – 1996

Mohamed Farrah Aidid

Lived 1934 – 1996; politician, diplomat, military officer. President of Somalia (Somalia), 1995 – 1996.

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Lived: 1934 – 1996; 62 years
In office: 1 year; one reign
Lines: 1; Somalia
Left it: died in office; read off the dates alone

President of Somalia

Somalia · the 6th of 16 dated reigns · 1960 – 2024

2 before

Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein1969

Siad Barre1969 – 1991

Ali Mahdi Muhammad1991 – 1997

Mohamed Farrah Aidid1995 – 1996

Hussein Farrah Aidid1996 – 1997

Abdiqasim Salad Hassan2000 – 2004

Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed2004 – 2008

7 after

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 1995 – 1996 · 1 year · came to it aged 61

Came to it: seized power
Left it: died in officeread off the dates alone: the term ends in 1996, the year they died

Aidid subsequently declared himself President of Somalia in June 1995.

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