Bashe Awil Omar

Bashe Awil Omar (born 1972 in Hargeisa, Somaliland) is a diplomat and politician.[1] He served as the Somaliland Representative to the United Arab Emirates (2015-2018)[2] and Kenya (2018-2021) as President of the Somaliland Liaison Office.[3][4]

Background

Omar was born in 1972 in Hargeisa, Somaliland. In 1991, Following the outbreak of the Somali Civil War, he moved to the United Kingdom. In 1997, Omar graduated with a bachelor's degree in Chemistry from UCL. Omar received a scholarship to attend The University of Manchester where he graduated with an MSc in Petrochemistry and Hydrocarbons Chemistry. During his residence in California, he got involved with mobilization for Kulmiye, a political party which was founded by his father-in-law, Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud. in 2011, Omar and his family moved to Nairobi, Kenya.[5] On 30 June 2015, Omar was appointed as the new Ambassador of Somaliland to the United Arab Emirates where he served from 2015 to 2018.[6] In 2018, President Musa Bihi Abdi appointed Omar as Somaliland Representative to Kenya and President of the Somaliland Liaison Office in Nairobi.[7] Upon assumption of the office in Nairobi, Omar has organised two major conferences between Somaliland and Kenya focusing of infrastructure and energy in 2018 and 2019.[8][9]

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