Abdikarim Ahmed Mooge

Abdikarim Ahmed Mooge Liibaan (Somali: Cabdikariin Axmed Mooge Liibaan) is a Somaliland politician and is the current Mayor of Hargeisa, the largest city and capital of Somaliland.

[1][2][3] Abdikarim was born in 1974 in Sin-ujiif, a village in the outskirts of Garowe, Somalia.

[4] At the outbreak of clashes in Hargeisa during the Somaliland War of Independence, Abdikarim fled to Ethiopia, specifically the Kaam-Abokor refugee camp.

[4] He later worked for UN agencies and international organizations, where he moved abroad and spent some of his life, but later returned to Hargeisa.

[4][5] Abdikarim took part politically in his campaign of the Waddani party, the largest opposition party in Somaliland, where he succeeded the previous mayor, Abdurrahman Mahmoud Aidiid, as the mayor of Hargeisa after the 2021 Somaliland municipal elections, gaining the most votes out of all candidates in Hargeisa.