Moumin Bahdon Farah (Somali: Muumin Bahdoon Faarax) (24 October 1939[1][2] – 1 September 2009) was a Djiboutian politician and the President of the Social Democratic People's Party (PPSD).
[9] In 1995, Farah led a faction of the government that opposed Prime Minister Barkat Gourad Hamadou and the head of the Cabinet, Ismail Omar Guelleh.
[1] At about the same time, together with two other deputies in the National Assembly, Ahmed Boulaleh Barreh and Ali Mahamade Houmed, Farah released a communiqué urging party militants and the people "to come together and mobilize to thwart, by all legal and peaceful means, this deliberate policy of President Hassan Gouled Aptidon to rule by terror and force while trampling underfoot our Constitution and republican institutions."
They were also fined 200,000 Djiboutian francs[15] and deprived of their civic rights for five years, thereby barring them from seeking election to the National Assembly during that time.
[1] Because the Group for Democracy and the Republic could not participate in the December 1997 parliamentary election, Farah instead urged support for Party for Democratic Renewal (PRD).
[16] Along with Boulaleh Barreh and 15 soldiers, Farah was charged with fomenting military unrest and plotting a coup; they were put on trial in September 1998.
[18] Speaking in a television interview on 22 November 2002, Farah said that his new party was not part of the opposition, expressing support for the government and stating that the PPSD planned to ally with the RPP.