Abdullahi Ahmed Jama

Quick Facts

Full Name	Abdullahi Ahmed Jama
Occupation	Civil Servant
Date Of Birth	Mar 13, 1951(1951-03-13)
Age	73
Birthplace	Erigavo
Country	Somalia
Birth City	Erigavo
Horoscope	Pisces

Abdullahi Ahmed Jama Biography

Abdullahi Ahmed Jama is one of the most popular and richest Civil Servant who was born on March 13, 1951 in Erigavo, Erigavo, Somalia. Jama was born on March 13, 1951, in Erigavo, a town in northeastern Somalia. He completed his primary education at Dayaha, a boarding school near Erigavo. Upon graduating, he was accepted into the newly established the National Teachers’ Education Center (NTEC) at the outskirts of Mogadishu, known as Lafole. Jama joined the Somali National Army and attended the Military Academy in Odessa (Ukraine), earning his first degree in military science in 1973. At first he was nicknamed Ilkajir, an it was later adopted as a surname.

After having lost the Puntland macro-region’s 2009 presidential race to Abdirahman Mohamud Farole, Ilkajir was appointed by Farole to the position of Interior Minister in Puntland’s cabinet in what was widely seen as a welcome attempt to settle political differences.

In August 2008, Ilkajir returned to his native Maakhir—a now defunct autonomous region in northern Somalia that territorially overlaps with the Sanaag region—with the promise of running in and winning the upcoming Puntland macro-region’s presidential election, and to improve the role of Maakhir’s inhabitants within Puntland’s administration. Some of Ilkajir’s other campaign promises included building up the security structure of Maakhir/Sanaag, and to extend the region’s capacity to defend, serve and protect its inhabitants from external disruptions such as piracy, charcoal profiteering and separatist adventures. For this, Ilkajir received a huge welcome throughout Maakhir.

Abdullahi Ahmed Jama Net Worth

Abdullahi Ahmed Jama is one of the richest Civil Servant from Somalia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Abdullahi Ahmed Jama 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Jama is a veteran of the 1977 Ogaden war, where he received two bronze medals and one silver medal for bravery as well as numerous certificates of merit for outstanding conduct.

From 1980 to 1983, he attended the Staff College in Cairo, Egypt earning a master’s degree in military science. In 1988-89, he also attended the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and earned a diploma in strategy and decision-making. In 2000, Jama attended Bryan & Stratton College at Rochester, NY and earned a degree in Accounting.

Abdullahi Ahmed Jama Ilkajir (Somali: Cabdulaahii Axmed Jamac Ilkajir, Arabic: عبد الله أحمد جامع ‎) is a Somali politician, who was Puntland’s Interior Minister from January 2009 to February 2014. He is the former Minister of Education of Somalia, having been appointed to the position on 12 January 2015 by the former Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke. However, he only served 2 weeks when on 17 January 2015, Prime Minister Sharmarke dissolved his newly nominated cabinet due to vehement opposition by legislators, who rejected the reappointment of certain former ministers. On 27 January 2015, Sharmarke appointed a new, smaller 20 minister cabinet of which Abdullahi Ahmed Jama was replaced by Khadra Bashir Ali. On 6 February, Sharmarke finalized his cabinet, consisting of 26 ministers, 14 state ministers, and 26 deputy ministers of which Abdullahi Ahmed Jama was reinstated but was now the Minister of Justice. He has now been succeeded by Hassan Hussein Hajji.

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Abdullahi Ranked on the list of most popular Civil Servant. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Somalia. Abdullahi Ahmed Jama celebrates birthday on March 13 of every year.