Sheikh Ibrahim Abdalla Mah - Death Of Ogaden Somali Hero
Early in the Morning on 22 June 2008 Sheikh Ibrahim Abdalla Mah died in Abu Dhabi.
Sh. Ibrahim Abdalla was born in Qalaafo (Kelafo) Ogaden in 1941. He finished his primary education in the Ogaden and went for further studies to Saudi Arabia in 1958 where he did his secondary education and University. He graduated From Imam Mohamed Bin-Sacud University in Mecca in 1970.
In 1973 he came to Somalia and became a teacher in the Secondary Schools in Hargheisa-Northern Somalia. He joined WSLF in 1976 and became WSLF representative in Abu Dhabi in 1981. He was also elected to the Central Committee of WSLF.
In 1984 Sh. Ibrahim Abdalla became one of the Founding members of ONLF. He came to the Ogaden and attended the First ONLF Congress in the Ogaden in 1991 and was elected its chairman. He was the Chairman of ONLF until 1998. He retained his Central Committee seat and was an active member of ONLF until he deceased. 1n 1999 he formed the institute of Strategic Studies of the Horn of Africa.
Sh. Ibrahim abdallah was a writer and wrote the following books and many articles in different newspapers in the Middle East. Sh. Ibrahim Abdalla strongly believed in the Right to self-determination and freedom of the Somali people under Ethiopian rule. Sh. Ibrahim spirit will always be beside the Somali Fighters in the Ogaden.
Sh. Ibrahim Abdalla left behind four boys and four girls and their off springs who reside in Kenya, UK, USA and Ireland.
Some of the Books Sh. Ibrahim wrote are
- The Third Defeat of the Abyssinians -1982 in Arabic
- Explaining the History (of the Struggle). Somali & Arabic 1992
- Explaining the History (of the Struggle). Somali & Arabic 1992
- Ogadenia Stops the Ethiopians- Somali 1996
- The Sum of Books (History of the Struggle) 2001.
