[3] As Minister of Finance, he announced austerity measures on 15 August 1995, following an International Monetary Fund recommendation for reduced government spending.
In addition to raising the income tax by 50%, these measures aimed at reducing the amount spent on the civil service.
Mohamed hoped that spending could be reduced by 6.6 billion Djiboutian francs in the period from September 1995 to December 1996.
[8] In the January 2003 parliamentary election, Mohamed was re-elected to the National Assembly[1] as the second candidate on the candidate list of the ruling coalition, the Union for a Presidential Majority (UMP), in Djibouti city.
[9] He was not included on the UMP candidate list in the February 2008 parliamentary election[10] and was succeeded by Moussa Bouh Odowa as Minister of Energy and Natural Resources on 31 March 2008.