Abdulahi Mohamed Sa'adi was the first president of the Somali regional state of Ethiopia, serving from January to July 1993.
[1][2] Sa'adi was born in 1934 in Fik, the main town of the Nogob region in the Ogaden, Ethiopia.
In early 1976, he returned to Somalia to carry on his political career, and he participated in the Ogaden war in 1977.
Later, the Somali government called for his return, but, fearing prosecution, he applied for political asylum at the Swedish embassy in Kuwait, and he then moved to Sweden.
He was elected president of the newly established state of Somali on January 23, 1993, but he was removed from office in July 1993, succeeded by Hassan Jire Kalinle.