Dr. Musa Kasim Omar | |
Native Name: | موسى قاسم عمر |
Native Name Lang: | ar |
Term Start: | 20 May 2014 |
Term End: | 15 August 2016 |
Office1: | Executive Director of Somaliland National AIDS Commission |
Term Start1: | 2005 |
Term End1: | 2007 |
Office2: | WHO Emergency and Humanitarian Officer for Somalia and Somaliland |
Term Start2: | 2003 |
Term End2: | 2005 |
Alma Mater: | Somali National University |
Musa Kassim Omer (so|Muuse Qasim Cumar, ar|موسى قاسم عمر) is a Somali Surgeon and politician. He was the Minister of Commerce, Industries and Tourism of Somaliland between May 2014 and August 2016.
Omer was born in Gabiley, situated in the former British Somaliland protectorate. He spent his childhood in the town and Djibouti. He hails from the Isaaq clan.
In 1980, Omer earned a Doctor of Medicine from the Somali National University in Mogadishu.
Omer previously served as the WHO Emergency and Humanitarian Officer for Somalia. He was also the Executive Director of the Somaliland National AIDS Commission (SOLNAC).[1] In May 2014, Omer was appointed Minister of Commerce and International Investment of the northwestern Somaliland region of Somalia and he has been sacked in early 2016, after the Kulmiye Conference in the late of 2015.[2]