Muse Bihi Abdi

ABOUT MUSE BIHI ABDI

Somaliland politician and former military officer best known as the President of Somaliland since December 2017. In November 2015, he was selected as the party's Presidential Candidate at the 5th annual Central Committee convention.

He graduated from Amoud Secondary School in 1970.

In 2010, he was appointed the chairman of the ruling Kulmiye of the Republic of Somaliland. He is the fifth President of Somaliland, directly succeeding  Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud.

He has two wives and seven children, three sons and four daughters.

During the 1970s, he served as a pilot in the Somali Air Force under the Siad Barre administration.