Barkhad Ali Salah | |
Native Name: | Somali: {{nq|برخاد علي صالح |
Birth Date: | 1930s |
Birth Place: | Bosaso, Somalia |
Death Date: | 2016 |
Death Place: | Bosaso, Somalia |
Office: | Mayor of Bosaso |
Term Start: | 1959 |
Term End: | 1963 |
Barkhad Ali Salah (Somali: Barkhad Cali Saalax, Somali: {{nq|برخاد علي صالح; 1930s–2016) was a veteran Somali politician and historian. He served as the first mayor of Bosaso.[1] [2] [3]
Salah was born in 1938 in Bosaso, located in the northeastern Bari region. He hailed from the Dishiishe, a sub-clan of the Darod. Salah had 13 children. His firstborn was a daughter, Baxsan Barkhad, and his lastborn was a son, Osman Barkhad.