Biography of ali mohamed gedion

He was portrayed as a man with no political skeletons - an intellectual with a clean slate who could foster reconciliation between the warring clans of Somalia.

But many wondered whether Mohammed Ali Ghedi was politically skilled enough to be the prime minister that could end a long-running civil war - and in his three-year stint he failed to achieve peace.

He first become known as a campaigner in the reconciliation process as the founding member and president of the Somalia NGO Consortium, an umbrella group of non-governmental organisations in Somalia.

But whereas some painted him as an intellectual, not a politician, with no military background, others claimed he was his father's son with a history steeped in intelligence, military service and close links to the current Ethiopian President, Meles Zenawi.

The clan question

The year-old owed his position to his bloodline: the son of a colonel in the Somali National Security Service (NSS) u