of violence and embezzlement. Therefore, allowing him to satisfy both the government and opposition at the time, paving way for his chairmanship of the Somali National Movement. From 1984 to 1990, Mohamoud was the Chairman of the Somali National Movement (SNM), serving as the liberation group's longest-serving chairman. Between 1993 and 1997, Mohamoud was a member of the House of Representatives of Somaliland. He also worked as the Somaliland Minister of Finance from 1997 to 1999, in which position he initiated a program of fiscal reform. Between 1999 and 2000, Mohamoud served as Somaliland's Minister of Planning and Coordination, a position from which he resigned in 2001. Prominent Seminars, Symposia, Conferences During his years of public service, Mohamoud participated in a broad array of forums relating to a variety of developmental aspects of the world. Notably, utilizing training programs under the auspices of the United Nations (United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)), as well as benefiting from a Leadership Grant organized by the African-American Institute that related to developmental fields, including visits to various regional state and federal governmental bodies throughout the United States. Conferences attended United Nations, Organization of African Union (OAU) The Arab League Islamic and Non-Aligned Movement Conferences Somalia congress in diaspora on behalf of Somalia government Leader of Somalia delegation UN Special Sessions, New York, NY OAU, Arab League, European Economic Commission (EEC), and the ministerial meetings of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (ACP). The 1976 Non-Aligned Conference, Lima, Peru United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Nairobi, Kenya, 1977 Roles during the Somaliland Nationhood Government 1982–1984: Chairman of Somali National Movement (SNM), UK Branch During the earlier years of the SNM, Mohamoud established offices and organized SNM committees throughout Europe, North America, and the Arab World to raise international awareness of the liberation movement and the brutality of Somalia's Siyad Barre regime against its own people through presentations to international human rights groups, the press media, various European government bodies, including the British Parliament and the European Inter-Parliamentary Union, and relevant organizations in the Arab and Islamic world. To further accomplish this, Mohamoud embarked on a program of recruitment of important personalities and groups in southern Somalia to join the SNM movement—a 1982 through 1991 Somali liberation faction founded and led predominantly