Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed

An haifi Abdullahi Yusuf a ranar 15 ga watan Disamba shekara ta 1934 a Galkayo, wanda ke cikin yankin Mudug na arewa maso tsakiyar Somaliya . Birnin ya kasance a lokacin wani ɓangare na Somaliland na Italiya. Iyalinsa sun fito ne daga dangin Omar Mahmoud na dangin Majeerteen Darod Harti Darod mafi girma.

yayi  karatun sakandare, Ahmed ya yi karatun a fannin shari'a a Jami'ar Kasa ta Somalia da ke Mogadishu . Daga baya ya koma kasashen waje don ci gaba da karatun soja.New People Media Centre (Nairobi, Kenya), New people, Issues 94–105, (New People Media Centre: Comboni Missionaries, 2005). Ahmed ya sami takardar sheddar digiri a fannin Topography na Soja daga Kwalejin Soja ta M. V. Frunze a tsohuwar Tarayyar Soviet  wata babbar cibiyar da aka tanada wa manyan jami'an sojojin Warsaw Pact da abokansu..  Ya sami ƙarin horo na soja a kasar Italiya.

Ahmed ya auri Hawa Abdi Samatar .  Ma'auratan suna da 'ya'ya maza guda biyu da mata biyu ban da jikoki shida.

Ahmed ya shiga aiki Soja a kasar  Somaliya a shekarar 1950. A shekara ta 1954 an haɗa shi a cikin rukunin farko na ma'aikatan soja na kasar Somaliya waɗanda aka kai su kasar  Italiya don basu horar da Jami'ai. Rukunin sun hada da Aidid, Samatar, da Gabeyre. A Kara mashi girma zuwa mukamin kwamandan a shekara ta 1960. Janice Hamilton, Somalia in Pictures, (Twenty-First Century Books: 2007), p. 70. A matsayinsa na soja, ya shiga cikin yakin shekara ta 1964 da aka yi da kasar Habasha kuma an yi masa ado saboda ya kasance babban jarumi .
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