Ougoureh Kifleh Ahmed [SEP] country of citizenship
Ougoureh Kifleh Ahmed
Ougoureh Kifleh Ahmed (born 18 November 1955) is a Djiboutian politician who served in the government of Djibouti as Minister of Defense from 1999 to 2011. He has also served as Secretary-General of the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy (FRUD).
Political career.
Kifleh Ahmed was born in Dikhil. FRUD, an Afar rebel group, split in 1994, when Kifleh Ahmed announced an internal revolt and the establishment of new leadership, saying that the new leadership would enter negotiations
candidate on the joint candidate list of the People's Rally for Progress (RPP) and FRUD for Dikhil Region. Following this election, he was moved to the post of Minister of the Civil Service and Administrative Reform on 28 December 1997.
Kifleh Ahmed was appointed as Minister of National Defense on 12 May 1999. In the January 2003 parliamentary election, Kifleh Ahmed was again elected to the National Assembly as the second candidate on the candidate list of the ruling coalition, the Union for a Presidential Majority (UMP),