Habar Gidir

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The Habar Gedir ( _so. "Habargidir") is a Somali clan, part of the larger Hawiye group.

The Habar Gedir clan became very powerful in the middle of 1700, when the King of the Ajuran (Ajuuraan) controlled much of the coast of East Africa. The Habar Gidir leader, a Fiqi of Shiikhaal and the Imam of the Abgaal formed an alliance to fight the administration of King Ajuuraan. The clan has produced some great Somali figues such as, Abdullahi Issa the chairman of the Somali Youth League (SYL) and first Prime Minister of Somalia prior to independence and General Mohamed Farrah Aidid who ousted the dictatorial regime of Siad Barre. Under the leadership of Mohamed Farrah Aidid, during the Somali Civil War the clan became more powerful. Aidid opposed the United Nations presence in Somalia, and specifically Mogadishu. His forces are most famous for their participation in the Battle of Mogadishu on 3 October 1993 against the United States Army Special Forces.

ub-clans of Habar Gedir

*Sacad
*Saleebaan
*Cayr also known Ayr
*Saruur [cite web | author=World Bank | title=Conflict in Somalia: Drivers and Dynamics | year=2005 | month=January | format=PDF | work=Appendix 2: Lineage Charts | url=http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTSOMALIA/Resources/conflictinsomalia.pdf | accessmonthday=June 15 | accessyear=2006 | pages=56-57]

Prominent figures

Political

*Abdiqasim Salad Hassan, President of Somalia 2000-2004
*Abdullahi Ahmed Addou, Ambassador to the United States (1970-80), finance minister (1980-84)
*Abdullahi Issa, chairman of the Somali Youth League and first prime minister of Somalia, 1949-1960
*Ali Shido Abdi, one the earlist members of SYL and former vice chairman
*Mohamed Farrah Aidid, United Somali Congress leader who ousted Siad Barre's regime
*Asha Haji Elmi, political and peace activist
*Haji Farah Ali Omar, the first Somali finance minister, the inventor of the Somali five shilling
* Magool, (Halima Khaliif Omar), Somali singer and musician
*Hassan Dahir Aweys, head of the council of the Islamic Courts of Somalia
*Hussein Mohamed Farrah, Somali National Alliance (SNA), Somalia Reconciliation and Restoration Council (SRRC) and Transitional Federal Government (TFG) leader, son of Mohammed Farah Aidid
*Ibrahim Hassan Addou, foreign minister for the Islamic Courts of Somalia
* Mohamoud Mohamed Gacmodhere, a onetime Presidential candidate.
*Mohamed Warsame Ali, senior diplomat, president of Galmudug state since 2006
*Aden Hashi Ayrow, Leader of Al-Shabab Movement and died in US airstrike 2008.
*Osman Ali Atto, Business man, politican, warlord and leader of SNA.
* Yusuf Mohammed Siad Inda'ade, head of security affairs for the Islamic Courts Union

Judges and lawyers

*Marian Hussein Awreye, director of the Isma'il Jim'ale Human Rights based in Mogadishu

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