| Ahmed Moallim Fiqi | |
| Native Name: | أحمد معلم الفقهي |
| Birth Date: | 1971 |
| Birth Place: | Galkacyo, Somalia |
| Office: | Minister of Foreign Affairs of Somalia |
| Primeminister: | Hamza Abdi Barre |
| Term Start: | 7 April 2024 |
| Predecessor: | Abshir Omar Huruse |
| Office1: | Minister of Internal Security of Galmudug, Somalia |
| President1: | Ahmed Abdi Kariye |
| Term Start1: | 24 April 2020 |
| Term End1: | 7 October 2021 |
| Predecessor1: | Saadaq Sheekh Yuusuf |
| Office2: | Secretary-General of Forum for National Parties |
| Term Start2: | October 2019 |
| Term End2: | 23 May 2020 |
| Successor2: | Abdirahman Mohamed Husen |
| Office3: | Secretary-General of Union for Peace and Development Party |
| Term Start3: | 4 October 2018 |
| Term End3: | 23 May 2020 |
| Successor3: | Abdirahman Mohamed Husen |
| Office4: | Member of Somali Federal Parliament |
| Term Start4: | 27 December 2016 |
| Office5: | Secretary-General of Daljir Party |
| Term Start5: | September 2015 |
| Term End5: | 4 October 2018 |
| Predecessor5: | Hasan Haji |
| Office6: | Director of Somali National Intelligence and Security Agency |
| President6: | Sharif Sheikh Ahmed Hassan Sheikh Mohamud |
| Term Start6: | 24 May 2011 |
| Term End6: | 25 March 2013 |
| Predecessor6: | Mohamed Warsame Darwish |
| Successor6: | Abdikarin Dahir |
| Office7: | Ambassador of Somalia to Sudan |
| President7: | Sharif Sheikh Ahmed |
| Term Start7: | 2010 |
| Term End7: | 24 May 2011 |
| Party: | Union for Peace and Development Party |
Ahmed Moallim Fiqi (Somali: Axmed Macallin Fiqi, Arabic: أحمد معلم الفقهي) is a politician from Somalia currently serving as foreign minister. Formerly a member of the Islamic Courts Union, Fiqi is currently a member of the Somali Federal Parliament. From May 2011 to March 2013, he served as Director of the National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA). After resigning from the position, he was provisionally replaced by Abdikarin Dahir.[1] [2] [3]
In 2015, Ahmed Moallim Fiqi run for the office of President of Galmudug State.[4] Ahmed lost to his contender Abdikarim Hussein Guled[5] Guled won by 49 to 40 votes over former Intel. Chief Ahmed Moallim Fiqi.
Fiqi was born in 1971 in Galkayo, Somalia, His family hailed from the Sa'ad Habargidir clan. Fiqi took his primary and secondary school in Mogadishu. In 1988, after his two-year Military service he was admitted for the College of Law at the Somali National University. Fiqi didn't complete his studies due to the Somali Civil War. He then went Sudan and studied agriculture at the University of Khartoum.[6] Fiqi is a graduate of International Islamic University Malaysia.
Fiqi speaks Somali, Arabic, and English.
Ahmed Fiqi started his political career during the Islamic Courts Union. He was very close friend of former ICU leader Sharif Sheikh Ahmed. Later when Sharif Sheikh Ahmed become president,[7] Fiqi served as the Somali ambassador to Sudan from 2010 to 2011. He was served as Director General of the National Intelligence and Security Agency and Presidential Candidate for the Galmudug State of Somalia.
In early 2015, Ahmed Fiqi co-founded Daljir Party with Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and Hassan Moalim.[8] Later Ahmed Fiqi run for the office of President of Galmudug State. He lost to his contender Abdikarim Hussein Guled Guled won by 49 to 40 votes over former Intelligence Chief Ambassador Ahmed Moallim Fiqi.
On 28 November 2016, Ahmed Moalim Fiqi was elected[9] as member of the Federal Parliament of Somalia from Galmudug in Adado, Somalia.
Fiqi's Daljir Party formed a coalition with former Somali President Hassan Mohamud's Peace and Development Party. They launched[10] Union for Peace and Development Party in October 2018.
On 7 April 2024, Fiqi was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs of Somalia.[11]