| Mohamed Aw-Ali Abdi | |
| Office: | Vice President of Somaliland |
| President: | Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi (elect) |
| Status: | Incoming |
| Term Start: | 14 December 2024 |
| Succeeding: | Abdirahman Saylici |
Mohamed Aw-Ali Abdi (Somali: Maxamed Cali Aw Cabdi) is a Somaliland politician who is the Vice President-elect of Somaliland. A member of the political party Waddani, he contested the 2024 presidential election with presidential nominee Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi and won in a political upset. The new administration is due to begin on December 14, 2024.
Mohamed ran for vice president as the running mate of presidential challenger Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi in the 2017 election.[1] In November 2016, he led a large delegation of Waddani politicians to Borama for a campaign event.[2] Later that same month, he held a campaign event in Birmingham, United Kingdom.[3] In April 2017, he also led a Waddani delegation to Switzerland to meet the Somalilander diaspora and Waddani supporters there.[4] Ultimately, incumbent president Muse Bihi Abdi won re-election.[5]
In March 2021, ahead of the scheduled presidential election in 2022, Mohamed and Abdirahman were elected near-unanimously to be the Waddani vice-presidential and presidential nominee, respectively.[6] The general election was later delayed until 2024. In June 2022, Mohamed visited the house of Hersi Ali Haji Hassan with other national-level Waddani politicians after Hersi's house was targeted by an allegedly pro-government vehicular attack. Delivering remarks at the scene, Hersi alleged that the incumbent government had orchestrated a separate, failed vehicular attack against other national-level Waddani politicians, including Mohamed.[7] A month before the November 2024 election, Mohamed promised that a new presidential administration would build an airport at Borama and a highway between Borama and Baki District.[8] Mohamed and Abdirahman won[9] in a political upset.[10]
The new administration is due to begin on December 14, 2024.[11]