Maslah Mohammed Siad Barre

He was commanding the 77th Sector in Mogadishu in November 1987,[1] and later became Chief of Staff (also reported as Commander-in-Chief) of the Army.

[4] On 12–13 November 1989, a group of Hawiye officers and men belonging to the 4th Division at Galkayo, in Mudug, mutinied.

General Maslah lead a force of Marehan clansmen to suppress the mutiny.

[5] After the Somali Civil War had ejected his father from the country, Maslah eventually settled in Kenya.

Twenty years later, Maslah was defeated by Sharif Sheikh Ahmed in the 2009 Somali presidential election.