After serving as a diplomat in different countries he worked as a delegate of Egypt to the United Nations in Mogadishu, Somalia, where he was assassinated.
[1] In 1936 he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and served as a diplomat in different countries, including Lebanon, Jordan, Japan, Syria, Sweden, Czechoslovakia and France.
[1] In 1953 Salah was appointed by President Gamal Abdel Nasser to the United Nations Advisory Council in Somalia as a delegate.
[3] Salah was posthumously awarded the Star of Somali Solidarity, and a street and a cultural center in Mogadishu were named after him.
[4] An Egyptian newspaper, Akhbar Al Youm, claimed on 20 April 1957 that the murderers of Salah were from Ethiopia.