Abdallah Isaaq Deerow

Abdallah Deerow Isaaq (Somali: Cabdalle Deeroow Isaaq, Arabic: عبد الله اسحاق ديرو; 1950 – 2006), sometimes Abdullah Deerow Isaq, was a Somali politician. He served as the first Speaker of Parliament in the Transitional National Government of Somalia from 2000 to 2003, and was later the Minister of Constitutional and Federal Affairs in the Transitional Federal Government. He was assassinated in July 2006.

Abdallah Isaaq Deerow
عبد الله اسحاق ديرو
Minister of Constitutional Affairs of the Transitional Federal Government
In office
2004–2006
8th Speaker of the Parliament of Somalia Transitional National Government
In office
2000–2003
Succeeded bySharif Hassan Sheikh Aden
Personal details
Born1950
Died2006 (aged 55–56)

Political career

Deerow is a member of the Rahaweyn clan and was a representative of that clan at the 2000 Somalia National Peace Conference (the Djibouti Conference).[1] He was elected as the Speaker of the parliament in the Transitional National Government (TNG) on August 20, 2000.[2] As speaker, he presided over the election of Abdiqasim Salad Hassan as TNG President at the Djibouti Conference.

In August 2003, Deerow was dismissed as Speaker of the parliamentary assembly, a decision which he maintained was illegitimate because the TNG's mandate had already ended earlier in the month.[1] In 2004, he was named Minister of Constitutional and Federal Affairs in the TNG's successor, the Transitional Federal Government (TFG), by President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed.[3]

Assassination

On July 28, 2006, as Deerow left Friday prayers from a mosque in Baidoa, which was at the time the temporary seat of the TFG, a lone gunman shot him dead.[4] Riots subsequently erupted in the city streets in protest of the killing.[3][5] In response, the authorities began a security crackdown.[3]

Notes
  1. "Transitional National Government Faction Rejects New Appointments". UN Integrated Regional Information Networks. Dec 9, 2003.
  2. "Twenty-nine candidates begin their campaigns for Somali presidency". BBC Summary of World Broadcasts. August 26, 2000.
  3. Crilly, Rob (August 4, 2006). "Somalia's transitional government on the verge of collapse". Christian Science Monitor.
  4. Gettleman, Jeffrey (July 29, 2006). "A Killing Strains Somalia's Hold on Its Tenuous Peace". New York Times.
  5. "Riots as Somali minister killed". BBC News. 2006-07-28. Retrieved 2007-07-29.

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