Mohamed Ali - Africa's Che Guevera

[baala xoofto]

Born as nomad to an illiterate family, a young boy called Mohamed Faarax Dalmar wants to not only change his own life for the better but also the lives of many many people. From Quranic school to Oxford University, this self-made warrior, his captivating journey  begins from camel-grassing lands of Oodweyne and goes through London, Lebenon, Syria, Palestine, Eritrea, and finally in Northern Somalia where he dies in the fierce battle between SNM and Siyad Barre's forces near the town of Cadaadley. 

In the process, becomes head of the Arab Student Union in London and starts the movement that would eventually give South Yemen its independence from Great Britian. He becomes the head of a commando unit that will fight in Syria/Israel, gets trained in Libya, Joins the liberation movements in Eritrea, WSLF, SSDF and then finally SNM.  He fights dictators Mingistu and Siyad Barre. 

If Africa had a Che Guevera, the one that comes close is Mohamed who is better known for his moniker Mohamed Ali.

Mohamed Ali was born in Oodweyne. He lost his mother at very young age. He travels solo to Burco where he gets a job at a local Tea-shop.   

He saves enough money and by the time he turns 8 years old, he already has plans to travel overseas to Yemen. He boards on to one of the livestock trucks that go to Berbera and makes his way to a boat that was departing for Adan, Yemen. 

When arrived in Yemen, he locates an old uncle who lived in Adan. He is given an opportunity to study at local schools and completes his Quran/Islamic studies at local masjid. 

In Yemen, Mohamed Ali attends a British run High School where he spends the next few years studying. In the final GCSE exam, Mohamed Ali becomes the highest student who gets the highest marks in GCSE exam in all of South Yemen. 

The British Administration in South Yemen gives Mohamed scholarship to study in Oxford University. Where he completes a course of Political Science. While in London, he becomes the head of the Arab Students Union, at time when Arab vs Israeli was at its boiling point. He quickly becomes a very notable person in the Presentation of the Arab views on local Radio Stations in London. 

When he returned back to South Yemen, he organises students to demonstrate against the British Administration. He forms a highly secretive movement that targeted British Administration officials. 

The British Administration targets Mohamed Faarax Dalmar and becomes the most wanted person in the country. 

The British Administration starts curfews on all of Adan, to try to get its grip on power. 

Mohamed changes his name to Mohamed Ali - to avoid capture. 

Within few years, the British Administration starts negotiations to hand over sovereignty to South Yemenese. 

After independence, the Yemeni Government formally recognises Mohamed Ali as one of the most important people in its freedom from British Rule. 

The new Government in South Yemen gives Mohamed options including Ministerial. But he declines. Instead, he asks for the State to fund a commando unit that will fight anywhere and everywhere in the Arab World. He recruits top fighters from Palestine, Egypt, Yemen, Somalia, Eritrea etc. After a year of training in the mountains of South Yemen and then in Libya, the Commando Unit is sent to Syria. 

While in Syria, his commando unit engages fierce battles with Israeli forces, he gets seriously wounded in one of the operations. After he gets better, he returns to Yemen. 

 

Part #2, where he joins the Eritrean People's Liberation Movement and fights with the Ethiopian Regime. And his journey to Somalia where he joins the WSLF and becomes the head of the first Armed Unit of the SNM. Mohamed Ali cements his legacy as a born to fight freedom fighter.  

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

May allah rest His soul hé was one of a kind leader of the first snm brigade in the hawd reserve area in the late 1970s way before the snm was actually even formed on a political level. To you we owe our freedom today