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POLITICIAN

Mohamed Farrah Aidid

1934 - 1996

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Mohamed Farrah Hassan Garad, known as General Aidid or Aideed (Somali: Maxamed Faarax Xasan Garaad, 'Caydiid Garaad'; Arabic: محمد فرح حسن عيديد; 15 December 1934 – 1 August 1996) was a Somali general and diplomat. Educated in both Rome and Moscow, he served as a chief in the Italian colonial police force and later as a brigadier general in the Somali National Army. He would eventually become chairman of the United Somali Congress (USC), and soon after the Somali National Alliance (SNA). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mohamed Farrah Aidid has received more than 2,462,738 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Mohamed Farrah Aidid is the 2,592nd most popular politician (up from 2,994th in 2019), the most popular biography from Somalia (up from 3rd in 2019) and the most popular Somali Politician.

Mohamed Farrah Aidid is most famous for being the Somali warlord who led the Somali National Alliance in the Somali Civil War.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mohamed Farrah Aidid ranks 2,592 out of 15,577Before him are George V of Hanover, Harald Greycloak, Georg Michaelis, Chaghri Beg, Moctezuma I, and B. J. Habibie. After him are Mentuhotep III, Emperor Go-Sai, Alfred Hugenberg, Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar, Günter Schabowski, and Dương Văn Minh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Mohamed Farrah Aidid ranks 38Before him are Larisa Latynina, Abimael Guzmán, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Roman Herzog, Tarcisio Bertone, and Bill Russell. After him are Alan Arkin, Bill Bixby, Jacques Anquetil, John L. Hall, Diana Wynne Jones, and Niklaus Wirth. Among people deceased in 1996, Mohamed Farrah Aidid ranks 26Before him are Gene Kelly, Solomon Asch, Silvio Piola, Sergiu Celibidache, Artur Axmann, and Marcel Carné. After him are René Clément, Mohammad Najibullah, Magda Schneider, Timothy Leary, Andreas Papandreou, and Odysseas Elytis.

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In Somalia

Among people born in Somalia, Mohamed Farrah Aidid ranks 1 out of 50After him are Siad Barre (1919), Waris Dirie (1965), Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi (1506), Hassan Gouled Aptidon (1916), Ali Mahdi Muhammad (1939), Iman (1955), Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed (1934), Aden Adde (1908), Abdirashid Shermarke (1919), Nur Hassan Hussein (1937), and Muse Bihi Abdi (1948).

Among POLITICIANS In Somalia

Among politicians born in Somalia, Mohamed Farrah Aidid ranks 1After him are Siad Barre (1919), Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi (1506), Hassan Gouled Aptidon (1916), Ali Mahdi Muhammad (1939), Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed (1934), Aden Adde (1908), Abdirashid Shermarke (1919), Nur Hassan Hussein (1937), Muse Bihi Abdi (1948), Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (1955), and Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (1962).