President · Somalia
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan
19 recorded engagements, 2000–2004: 19 visits and 2 signed agreements.
Biography
President of Somalia from 2000 to 2004
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan (Somali: Cabdiqaasim Salaad Xasan; Arabic: عبد القاسم صلاد حسن; born 1 January 1941), also known as Abdiqasim Salad, is a Somali politician who served as the fifth President of Somalia from 2000 to 2004. He helped found the Transitional National Government and previously served as Minister of Interior in the government of Siad Barre.
== Biography ==
Hassan was born in the town of Galdogob, situated in the north-central Mudug region of the former Italian Somaliland. His family hails from the Habar Gidir sub-clan of the Gorgaarte Hawiye.
Hassan pursued his post-secondary education in the USSR, graduating in 1965 from the Biology Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University.
== Political career ==
=== Early career ===
A key founder of Somalia's Sulh (reconciliation) group of which former Foreign Minister Abdirahman Jama Barre was also a part, Hassan has held several important positions in the Somali government, most notably as Siad Barre's last Minister of Interior from 1990 to 1991. As such, Hassan was responsible for all internal security agencies including the National Security Service (NSS), the Investigative Department of the Somali Revolutionary Socialist...
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Where they travelled
Somalia Visited or called (darker = more often)
Most-visited countries
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Activity by year
Signed agreements
Where the agreement's title was not recorded, its type or category is shown, as coded in the dataset.
| Date | Partner | What was signed |
|---|---|---|
| 2002-03-06 | Libya | Functional cooperation |
| 2004-01-09 | Kenya | High-level politics |
Every recorded engagement
| Date | Type | Destination | Agreements |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000-09-04 | Visit | Egypt · Cairo | |
| 2000-09-05 – 2000-09-15 | Visit Summit | United States of America · New York | |
| 2000-10-20 – 2000-10-23 | Visit Summit | Egypt · Cairo | |
| 2000-11-15 – 2000-11-17 | Visit | Ethiopia · Addis Ababa | |
| 2000-11-18 | Visit | Yemen · Sanaa | |
| 2001-01-18 – 2001-01-19 | Visit Summit | Cameroon · Yaoundé | |
| 2001-03-27 – 2001-03-28 | Visit Summit | Jordan · Amman | |
| 2001-11-01 – 2001-11-04 | Visit | Kenya · Nairobi | |
| 2002-03-06 – 2002-03-07 | Visit Summit | Libya · Tripoli | Agreement signedFunctional cooperation |
| 2002-07-07 – 2002-07-09 | Visit Summit | South Africa · Durban | |
| 2003-02-02 – 2003-02-04 | Visit Summit | Ethiopia · Addis Ababa | |
| 2003-02-17 – 2003-02-18 | Visit | Saudi Arabia · Riyadh | |
| 2003-07-30 | Visit | Kenya · Nairobi | |
| 2003-09-14 – 2003-09-15 | Visit | Kenya · Nairobi | |
| 2003-10-12 – 2003-10-13 | Visit | Djibouti · Djibouti City | |
| 2003-10-13 – 2003-10-14 | Visit | Libya · Tripoli | |
| 2003-10-14 – 2003-10-15 | Visit | Malaysia · Kuala Lumpur | |
| 2003-10-23 – 2003-10-24 | Visit Summit | Uganda · Kampala | |
| 2004-01-09 – 2004-01-29 | Visit Summit | Kenya · Nairobi | Agreement signedHigh-level politics |
Cite this profile
Ozturk, Y., Atabas, H., Guler, E., Duyar, B., & Yucel, R. (2026). Leaders' Visits & Agreements Database [Data set]. Africa Foundation. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22898778 [Abdiqasim Salad Hassan leader profile. Accessed 26 September 2026. https://lead-database.netlify.app/leaders/abdiqasim-salad-hassan.html]