List of presidents of Somalia facts for kids

This is a list of presidents of Somalia. Since the establishment of the office of president in 1960, there have been 9 official presidents. The president is the head of state of Somalia and the commander-in-chief of the Somali Armed Forces. The current office holder is Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, having been elected in the 2022 presidential election. He is the first person to have held the office on multiple occasions, having been previously elected in the 2012 presidential election and held the office from 2012–2017.

List

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office			Political party	Election
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
• Somali Republic (1960–1969) •
1		Aden Adde (1908–2007)	1 July 1960	10 June 1967	6 years, 344 days	SYL	1960
2		Abdirashid Shermarke (1919–1969)	10 June 1967	15 October 1969 †	2 years, 127 days	SYL	1967
–		Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein (1912–2012) Acting	15 October 1969	21 October 1969	6 days	SYL	—
• Somali Democratic Republic (1969–1991) •
3		Siad Barre (1910–1995)	21 October 1969	26 January 1991	21 years, 97 days	SRSP	1980 1986
• Interim Government of Somalia (1991–1997) •
4		Ali Mahdi Muhammad (1939–2021)	27 January 1991	3 January 1997	5 years, 342 days	USC	1991
Vacant (3 January 1997–27 August 2000)
• Transitional national government of Somalia (2000–2004) •
5		Abdiqasim Salad Hassan (born 1941)	27 August 2000	14 October 2004	4 years, 48 days	Independent	2000
• Transitional federal government of Somalia (2004–2012) •
6		Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed (1934–2012)	14 October 2004	29 December 2008 (Resigned)	4 years, 76 days	Independent	2004
–		Aden Madobe (born 1957) Acting	29 December 2008	31 January 2009	33 days	RRA	—
7		Sharif Sheikh Ahmed (born 1964)	31 January 2009	20 August 2012	3 years, 202 days	ARS	2009
• Federal Republic of Somalia (2012–present) •
–		Muse Hassan Sheikh Sayid Abdulle (born 1940) Acting	20 August 2012	28 August 2012	8 days	Independent	—
–		Mohamed Osman Jawari (1945–2024) Acting	28 August 2012	16 September 2012	19 days	Independent	—
8		Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (born 1955)	16 September 2012	16 February 2017	4 years, 153 days	PDP	2012
9		Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (born 1962)	16 February 2017	23 May 2022	5 years, 96 days	TPP	2017
10		Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (born 1955)	23 May 2022	Incumbent	2 years, 64 days	Union for Peace and Development Party	2022

Timeline

See also

• History of Somalia
• Politics of Somalia
• List of colonial governors of British Somaliland
• List of colonial governors of Italian Somaliland
• President of Somalia
• List of prime ministers of Somalia
• List of speakers of the Parliament of Somalia