Hasan Muhammad Nur Shatigadud

Colonel Hasan Muhammad Nur Shatigadud ("Somali": "Xassan Maxamed Nuur Shaati-Gaduud", _ar. حسن محمد نور شاتيغادود) is a Somali warlord, and chairman of the Rahanweyn Resistance Army (RRA), which sought to establish the autonomous state of Southwestern Somalia. Recently he is said to have played a role in the capture of Mogadishu by Ethiopian and Transitional Federal Government forces in December 2006.Fact|date=February 2007Shati Gaduud is from Harin one of the larger clans of Digil & Mirifle. He speaks Somali (Maay & Mahatiri), Arabic, Italian, and English.

iad Barre regime

Shatigadud, or "Redshirt," served as a colonel in the much-feared NSS under the rule of Siad Barre.cite web
title=Southern regional authorities: the Rahanweyn Resistance Army (RRA) (2004)
url=http://www.internal-displacement.org/idmc/website/countries.nsf/(httpEnvelopes)/2626D6CA7E7040B5802570B8005AACE9?OpenDocument
accessdate=2007-02-04
date=2004
publisher=Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) ]

Rahanweyn Resistance Army (RRA)

During the Somali Civil War, Shatigadud was the leader of the Rahanweyn Resistance Army (RRA), which was founded in September 1995 to oppose the invasion of the Bay and Bakool regions by Mohamed Farah Aideed's Somali National Alliance (SNA). The RRA supported, for a time, the prospects of forming a new Transitional National Government (TNG) under President Abdiqasim Salad Hassan.

President of Southwestern Somalia (SWS)

On April 1, 2002, he became the first President of the ostensibly autonomous self-proclaimed state in Somalia.cite news
title=SOMALIA: RRA sets up autonomous region
url=http://www.fotw.us/flags/so-sws.html
date=2002-04-01
publisher=IRIN
accessdate=2007-02-04 ] cite news
title=Third autonomous region breaks with Somalia
url=http://www.afrol.com/News2002/som004_southwest.htm
publisher=Afrol News
date=2002-03-02
accessdate=2007-02-04] The organization of the autonomous state was thought to be a move to show the disaffection of the RRA with the nascent Mogadishu-based Transitional National Government (TNG) and an act to counter the influence of the Somalia Reconciliation and Restoration Council (SRRC) in the same regions.cite news
title=Third autonomous region breaks with Somalia
url=http://www.afrol.com/News2002/som004_southwest.htm
publisher=Afrol News
date=2002-03-02
accessdate=2007-02-04] However, internal disputes erupted between Shatigadud, who wished to support the new Somalia Reconciliation and Restoration Council (SRRC) and his two deputies, Sheikh Aden Madobe and Muhammad Ibrahim Habsade, who wished to continue to support the TNG. The conflict resulted in many deaths and calls for Shatigadud to step down as President.cite news
title=Baidoa uneasy as RRA leaders wrangle
url=http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=28534
publisher=IRIN
date=2002-06-27
accessdate=2007-02-04] Habsade continued to meet with TNG leaders ostensibly with the hope of being part of the nascent national government.cite news
title=SOMALIA: RRA leaders in talks with TNG
url=http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=29653&SelectRegion=Horn_of_Africa&SelectCountry=SOMALIA
date=2002-09-02
publisher=IRIN
accessdate=2007-02-04] The warring leaders of the RRA were eventually reconciled and, though conflicts periodically erupted thereafter, all joined the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) at its formation.

Transitional Federal Government (TFG)

Shatigadud has served since November 2004 as a Member of Parliament of the 275-seat Transitional Federal Parliament (TFP).cite web
title=SELECTED MEMBERS OF TRANSITIONAL FEDERAL PARLIAMENT OF SOMALIA
url=http://somali-civilsociety.org/downloads/Names%20of%20the%20selected%20Members%20of%20Parliament.pdf
date=November 2004
accessdate=2007-02-04 ] and since January 2005 as Minister of Finance for the Transitional Federal Government (TFG).cite web
title=Prime Minister Geedi announced his second cabinet line up
url=http://www.somali-civilsociety.org/downloads/press/List%20Cabinet%20Ministers%208_%20Jan_05.pdf
accessdate=2007-02-03 ] [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications//chiefs/chiefs164.html Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments] CIA, November 22, 2006]

Shatigadud was appointed Minister of National Security in the government of Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein on December 2 2007, but he, along with three other ministers from the Rahanwein clan, resigned on December 3, saying that the Rahanwein had not been given a fair share of posts in Hussein's government. [Ahmed Mohamed, [http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=87&art_id=nw20071204161752787C166238 "Somali president flown to Kenya hospital"] , Reuters ("IOL"), December 4, 2007.]

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