Salah Ahmed Jama

Salah Ahmed Jama (Somali: Saalax Axmed Jaamac, Arabic: صالح احمد جامع; born 1980) is a Somali politician serving as the Deputy Prime Minister of the Federal Government of Somalia since 2 August 2022. Salah previously served in the cabinet twice, first as the Minister of Labour, and later as the Minister of Constitutional Affairs.

Salah is also Senator of the Upper House of the Federal Parliament of Somalia representing the Sanaag region and a former MP who has represented Sanaag in the House of the People of the Federal Parliament from December 2016 until his election to the Upper House in September 2021.

== Background ==

Salah Jama was born in Erigavo, Sanaag in 1980 and had later moved to India where he lived for some time before relocation to Ottawa, Canada where he earned a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Political Science and Developmental Studies from Carleton University. Salah later worked as a teacher and research assistant at Carleton University’s Political Science and African Studies departments. His research focused on peace and state-building with a keen interest in the challenges facing post-conflict societies and their recovery and has written several publications...