Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein
Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein was the speaker of the Somali parliament, and briefly an interim President of Somalia in 1969.Hussein was born into a Hadame family, in the central town of Xuddur in the Bakool region.Politics
In 1946, Hussein joined the burgeoning, nationalist party of the Somali Youth Club. He served the SYL's head office in what was then known as Upper Jubba, which included several current regions of Southwestern Somalia.
He died in Nairobi, Kenya in 2012 at the age of 100. He was accorded a state funeral by the government in Mogadishu, Somalia and was buried there on June 15, 2012.
