Mohamed Yusuf Haji (Somali: Maxamed Yuusuf Xaaji) (23 December 1940 – 15 February 2021) was a Kenyan politician.

[3] For his post-secondary education, Haji earned a diploma from the University of Birmingham, where he majored in Management and Finance Control.

Both of Haji's sons, Abdul and Noordin (who both of them have experience with guns since their childhood), were involved in the Westgate shopping mall attack in 2013 and they were credited with saving multiple lives despite deadly danger.

[2] On 18 October 2011, Haji and a Kenyan delegation met with Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG) officials in Mogadishu to discuss security issues cooperation against the Islamist Al-Shabaab group as part of the coordinated Operation Linda Nchi.

[5] Haji and Somalia's Minister of Defence Hussein Arab Isse then signed an agreement to collaborate against the insurgent group.

[6] In early June 2012, Haji signed another agreement officially re-hatting Kenya's deployed military forces in Somalia under the AMISOM general command.