Daher Ahmed Farah, (Somali: Daahir Axmed Faarax) also known as DAF, is a Djiboutian politician and writer,[1] who was born in 1962 in Dikhil.
In 1983 Farah was an Inter-African admission to the annual entry competition at the Special Military School of Saint-Cyr and studied management at Reims and Limoges.
In 1994, he participated in the formation of the Democratic Renewal Party (PRD) with Mohamed Djama Elabe and Suleiman Farah Lodon and became its president in July 1997.
In 2013, he returned to Djibouti under the banner of the Union for national salvation (USN - opposition) in the parliamentary elections of 22 February 2013, finally officially won by the ruling party.
He was provisionally released six weeks later on 12 May, after serving six weeks in prison, however he still faced charges of “being in contact with a foreign power” and “undermining the army’s morale.”[2] On 26 June 2013, an appeals court found Farah guilty of "refusing to comply with a judicial order" and sentenced him to a two-month jail sentence.