Dahir Rayale Kahin
President of Somaliland
Incumbent
Assumed office  3 May 2002
Vice President	Ahmed Yusuf Yasin
Preceded by	Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal
Born	1952 Quljeed, Awdal, British Somaliland
Political party	United Peoples' Democratic Party
Spouse(s)	Huda Barkhad
Religion	Sunni Islam

Dahir Rayale Kahin (Somali: Daahir Riyaale Kaahin), born in 1952, is the 3rd president of the autonomous northwestern Somaliland region of Somalia.^[1][2] He became the third president of Somaliland on May 5, 2002, after the death of Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal. He won elections on April 14, 2003, representing the Ururka Dimuqraadiga Umada Bahawday (UDUB), or United Democratic People's Party, and was sworn into office on May 16, 2003.

Contents 1 Background 2 Salary 3 Service in the Barre government 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Background

Kahin was born in the town of Quljeed in the northwestern Awdal region of Somalia. He is a member of the Reer Dudub sub-clan of the Gadabursi Dir clan. Trained in Mogadishu, Kahin's previous posts included a diplomatic position at the Somali Embassy in Djibouti, intelligence in the government of former president Mohamed Siad Barre, a stint as governor of Awdal and as a businessman, and a term as vice president of Somaliland (1997-2002).

[edit] Salary

From 2004 to 2006, There were some reports that president Kahin is overpaid in salary with $412,698 US Dollars, possibly overtaking the salary of the president of the United States. Other reports put the figure up to $515,956.

[edit] Service in the Barre government

In the last years of the Barre government, Kahin held the rank of Sergeant in the National Security Service, and served as the NSS station chief in Berbera. During this time, the NSS was identified by many sources (including the U.S. Department of State, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Africa Watch) as having been involved in torture and extrajudicial killings of civilians on a massive scale, particularly during the war in northern Somalia from May 1988 through to the end of 1989. Sergeant Kahin was charged with suppression of the Somali National Movement.^[3]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• (Brief history of Somaliland)
• [1] (Somalilandnet.com)
• [2] (Somaliland.org)
• [3] (Somalilandtimes.net)
• [4] (waayaha.net)

Political offices
Preceded by Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal	President of Somaliland 2002 – present	Incumbent

Presidents of Somaliland
Abdirahman Ahmed Ali Tour | Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal | Dahir Riyale Kahin