President of Somaliland

The president of Somaliland is the head of state and head of government of Somaliland. The president is also commander-in-chief of the Somaliland Armed Forces.

During the Ottoman Empire (1517–1917)

Muhammed bin Abd al-Muin, Sharif of Mecca 1827–1851, as pictured in the 1848 book by William Francis Lynch

Emir	Reign	Notes
Barakat II bin Muhammed	1473–1525	Co-reigned with his son Abu Numayy II for the last thirteen years of his rule; first Ottoman Sharif; Hejaz became an Ottoman state after the fall of Cairo to Sultan Selim I.
Abu Numayy II bin Barakat	1512–1584	Co-reigned with his father Barakat II for the first thirteen years of his rule, and with his son Hassan for the last thirty-one years of his rule; rebuilt the walls of Jeddah in 1525 following the victory over the Portuguese in the Red Sea.
Hassan bin Abu Numayy II	1553–1601	Co-reigned with his father for the first thirty-one years of his rule.
Abd al-Muttalib bin Hassan	1601	Reigned for less than a year.
Abu Talib bin Hassan	1601–1603	Co-reigned with his brother Idris.
Idris bin Hassan	1601–1620	Co-reigned with his brother Abu Talib for the first two years of his rule, then with his brother Fuhaid for six years and nephew Muhsin for sixteen.
Fuhaid bin Hassan	1604–1610	Co-reigned with his brother Idris and his son Muhsin.
Muhsin bin Fuhaid	1604–1628	Co-reigned with his father for the first six years of his rule, and with his uncle Idris for the first sixteen.
Ahmed bin Abd al-Muttalib	1628–1629
Masoud bin Idris	1629–1630
Abdullah I bin Hassan	1630–1631
Muhammed bin Abdullah	1631–1632	Co-reigned with his first cousin once removed, Zeid.
Zeid bin Muhsin	1631–1632	First reign, co-reigned with his first cousin once removed, Muhammed.
Namy bin Abd al-Muttalib	1632	Briefly co-reigned with his cousin Abd al-Aziz.
Abd al-Aziz bin Idris	1632	Briefly co-reigned with his cousin Namy.
Zeid bin Muhsin	1632–1666	Second reign.
Saad bin Zeid	1666–1672	First reign, co-reigned with his brother Ahmed for the last three years of his rule.
Ahmed bin Zeid	1669–1672	First reign, co-reigned with his brother Saad.
Barakat bin Muhammed bin Ibrahim bin Barakat bin Abu Numayy	1672–1682
Said bin Barakat	1682–1683
Ahmed bin Zeid	1672–1688
Ahmed bin Ghalib bin Muhammed bin Musaid bin Masoud bin Hasan	1688–1690
Muhsin bin Hussein	1690–1691
Said bin Saad	1691	Ceded reign to his father Saad.
Saad bin Zeid	1691–1696	Second reign.
Abdullah II bin Hashim	1696	Co-reigned with Said.
Saad bin Zeid	1694–1702	Third reign.
Abdulkarim bin Muhammed	1704–1705	First reign.
Saad bin Zeid	1705	Fourth reign, lasted eighteen days.
Said bin Saad	1705
Abdulkarim bin Muhammed	1705–1711	Second reign.
Said bin Saad	1711–1717	Second reign.
Abdullah III bin Said	1717–1718	First reign.
Ali bin Said	1718
Yahya bin Barakat	1718–1720
Mubarak bin Ahmad	1720–1723
Yahya bin Barakat	1723–1725
Abdullah III bin Said	1725–1731	Second reign.
Muhammed bin Abdullah	1731–1733	Co-reigned with his uncle Masoud for the last year of his rule.
Masoud bin Said	1732–1752	Briefly co-reigned with his nephew Muhammed for the first year of his rule.
Musaid bin Said	1752–1759	First reign.
Jafar bin Said	1759–1760
Musaid bin Said	1760–1770	Second reign.
Abdullah IV bin Hussein bin Barakat	1770–1771
Ahmed bin Said	1771–1773
Surur bin Musaid	1773–1788
Abd al-Muin bin Musaid	1788	First reign, only lasted a few days.
Ghalib bin Musaid	1788–1813	Co-reigned with his brother Abd al-Muin while Saudis held the city of Mecca.
Abd al-Muin bin Musaid	1796–1813	Second reign, co-reigned with his brother Ghalib.
Yahya bin Surur	1813–1827
Abd al-Muttalib bin Ghalib	1827	First reign.
Muhammed bin Abd al-Muin bin Awn bin Muhsin bin Abdullah bin al-Hussain bin Abdullah I	1827–1851	First reign, placed in power by Muhammad Ali Pasha.
Abd al-Muttalib bin Ghalib	1851–1856	Second reign.
Muhammed bin Abd al-Muin	1856–1858	Second reign.
Abdullah bin Muhammed	1858–1877
Hussein bin Muhammed	1877–1880
Abd al-Muttalib bin Ghalib	1880–1881	Third reign.
Abd al-Ilah bin Muhammed	1881–1882	Was appointed again in 1908 after the deposition of Ali bin Abdullah, however he died before reaching Mecca.
Awn ar-Rafiq bin Muhammed	1882–1905
Ali bin Abdullah bin Muhammed	1905–1908
Hussein bin Ali Pasha	1908–1916	Later King Hussein
Ali Haidar Pasha	1916–1917

List

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Elected	Term of office		Political party
				Took office	Left office
		Sayyid Muhammad al-Barr		1830	1841
		Haji Shermarki bin Ali Salil		1841	1855
		Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad		1855	1857
		Haji Shermarki bin Ali Salil		1857	1861
		Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad		1861	1869
		Ahmad Rashid Husni Pasha		1869	1870
		Abdirahman Bey		1870	1874
		Muhammad Ra'uf Pasha		1874	1878
		Radhwan (Raduan) Pasha		1878	1880
		Muhammad Nadi Pasha		1880	1882
		Rida Pasha		1882	1884
		Frederick Mercer Hunter		1884	1887
		Frederick Mercer Hunter		20 July 1887	1888
		Edward Vincent Stace,		1888	1893
		Charles William Henry Sealy,		1893	1896
		William Butler Ferris,		1896	1897
		James Hayes Sadler		1897	1898
		James Hayes Sadler		1898	1901
		Harry Edward Spiller Cordeaux		1901	1902
		Eric John Eagles Swayne		1902	1905
		Harry Edward Spiller Cordeaux		1905	1909
		William Henry Manning		January 1909	1911
		Horace Byatt		July 1911	1914
		Geoffrey Francis Archer		May 1914	October 1919
		Geoffrey Francis Archer		October 1919	17 August 1922
		Gerald Henry Summers		17 August 1922	29 November 1925
		Harold Baxter Kittermaster		29 November 1925	18 June 1932
		Arthur Salisbury Lawrance		18 June 1932	2 March 1939
		Vincent Glenday		2 March 1939	19 August 1940
		Guglielmo Nasi		19 August 1940	27 August 1940
		Carlo De Simone		27 August 1940	16 March 1941
		Arthur Reginald Chater		16 March 1941	3 March 1943
		Gerald Thomas Fisher		3 March 1943	February 1948
		Gerald Reece		February 1948	February 1954
		Theodore Pike		February 1954	1959
		Douglas Hall		11 July 1959	1 July 1960
—		Sheikh Omar Askar		29 February 1956	12 July 1960
1		Abdullahi Issa		29 February 1956	1 July 1960
2		Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal		1 July 1960	12 July 1960
3		Abdirashid Shermarke		12 July 1960	14 June 1964
4		Abdirizak Haji Hussein		14 June 1964	15 July 1967
2		Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal		15 July 1967	21 October 1969
5		Hassan Mahmoud		1973	1978
6		Mohamed Farah Dalmar Yusuf		1978	1981
7		Ahmed Mohamed Gulaid		1981	1982
8		Yusuf Sheikh Ali Madar		1982	1983
9		Abdiqadir Kosar Abdi		1983	1984
10		Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud		1984	1990
11		Abdirahman Ahmed Ali Tuur (1931–2003)	1991	28 May 1990	16 May 1993	SNM
12		Hassan Isse Jama		16 May 1993	16 May 1993
2		Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal (1928–2002)	1993 1997	16 May 1993	3 May 2002	Independent
						UDUB
—		Suleiman Mohamoud Adan		1994	1994
—		Mohamed Hashi		1994	1994
13		Abdirahman Aw Ali Farrah		3 May 2002	3 May 2002
14		Dahir Riyale Kahin (born 1952)	2003	3 May 2002	27 July 2010	UDUB
15		Mohammed Omar Osman		27 July 2010	27 July 2010
16		Ahmed Yusuf Yasin		27 July 2010	27 July 2010
10		Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud (1938–2024)	2010	27 July 2010	13 December 2017	Kulmiye
17		Abdirahman Mahdi		13 December 2017	13 December 2017
18		Sheikh Ibrahim Abdalla Mohamed		13 December 2017	13 December 2017
19		Mohamoud Dirir Gheddi		13 December 2017	13 December 2017
20		Abdirahman Saylici		13 December 2017	13 December 2017
21		Muse Bihi Abdi (born 1948)	2017	13 December 2017	13 December 2024	Kulmiye
—		Jamal Ali Hussein		13 December 2023	13 December 2023
—		Abdi Ahmed Musa Abyan		13 December 2023	13 December 2023
20		Abdirahman Saylici		13 December 2024	13 December 2024
21		Mohamed Aw-Ali Abdi		13 December 2024	13 December 2024
22		Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi		13 December 2024	Incumbent

President Of Somaliland Media

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  The outgoing president, Abdirahman Ahmed Ali Tuur, leaves the hall alongside newly elected president, Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal. Tuur is being congratulated by an elder man on his decision to accept the outcome of the election and stand down peacefully after several days intense debate and negotiation.