Ougoureh Kifleh Ahmed (born 18 November 1955[1]) is a Djiboutian politician who served in the government of Djibouti as Minister of Defense from 1999 to 2011.

[1] FRUD, an Afar rebel group, split in 1994, when Kifleh Ahmed announced an internal revolt and the establishment of new leadership, saying that the new leadership would enter negotiations with the government to end the civil war.

[6] Following this election, he was moved to the post of Minister of the Civil Service and Administrative Reform on 28 December 1997.

[9] In the January 2003 parliamentary election, Kifleh Ahmed was again 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 Dikhil Region.

[10] President Ismail Omar Guelleh awarded the medal of the Commander of the Great Star of Djibouti to Kifleh Ahmed and FRUD President Ali Mohamed Daoud during independence day celebrations on 27 June 2004.