of Somalia and close relative of Siad Barre; longest-serving Somali diplomat Haji Bashir – first President of the Somali National Assembly; former Minister of Health and Labour of Somalia Fatimo Isaak Bihi – ambassador to Geneva and former Director of the African Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ali Dhere – cleric; head of the first Islamic Courts Union in Mogadishu in 1996; spokesman for Al-Shabaab Hussein Ali Duale (Xuseen Cali Ducaale) – former Finance Minister of Somaliland, and former ambassador of Somalia to Kenya and Uganda Hussein Abdi Dualeh – former Minister of Energy & Minerals of Somaliland Adan Ahmed Elmi – former Minister of Agriculture of Somaliland Bashe Mohamed Farah – speaker of the House of Representatives of Somaliland Adde Gabow (Mohamed Ali Hassan or Maxamed Cali Xasan) – former governor of the Banaadir region and mayor of Mogadishu Suleiman Haglotosiye – former Minister of Health of Somaliland Anisa Hajimumin – Somali-American politician, social activist and writer; Minister of Women & Family Affairs of Puntland Bur'i Mohamed Hamza – State Minister of Foreign Affairs of Somalia Abdulkadir Abdi Hashi – politician; MP and former Minister of State for Planning and International Cooperation of Puntland Abdishakur Mohamoud Hassan – current Mayor of Berbera Ahmed M. Hassan – Somali American member-elect of the Clarkston City Council Hassan Abdallah Hassan – current Mayor of Bosaso Mohamed Moallim Hassan, politician who served as minister of fishery and marine resources of Somalia, 2010-2011 Mark Hendrick (b. 1958) – Somali-British politician and Labour Co-operative Member of Parliament Mohamud Siraji Member of Somali Parliament Abdirashid Mohamed Hidig (Cabdirashiid Maxamed Xidig) – Member of Parliament in the Transitional Federal Parliament Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein (Sheekh Mukhtaar Maxamed Xuseen) (b. 1912) – speaker of parliament and interim president Zakia Hussein – politician; Secretary General of the Hanoolaato Party Halima Ismail Ibrahim – Chair of Somalia's National Independent Electoral Commission Mohamed Mohamud Ibrahim (b. 1946/47) – Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Somalia Jaylaani Nur Ikar – first Deputy Speaker of the Federal Parliament of Somalia Yusuf Mohammed Siad Inda'ade (Yuusuf Maxamed Siyaad "Indhacadde") – member of the Islamic Courts Union Abdullahi Sheikh Ismail (Cabdullaahi Sheekh Ismaaciil) – deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister in the TFG Edna Adan Ismail (Edna Aadan Ismaaciil) (b. 1937) – former Foreign Minister of Somaliland Ismail Ali Ismail – writer and former diplomat Bashir Isse – Governor of