Moumin Bahdon Farah’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Djiboutian politician (1939-2009)
Was Politician 
From Djibouti 
Type Politics 
Gender male
Birth 24 October 1939
Death 1 September 2009, Paris
(aged 69 years)

Moumin Bahdon Farah (24 October 1939 – 1 September 2009) was a Djiboutian politician and the President of the Social Democratic People’s Party (PPSD). He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1978 to 1993 and Minister of Justice from 1993 to 1996. Currently, he was a member of the National Assembly of Djibouti.
Farah was an Issa and a member of the Odah Gob subclan. Prior to independence, he became Minister of the Interior, Posts and Telecommunications in 1976, as part of the transitional government headed by Abdallah Mohamed Kamil. In Djibouti’s first post-independence government, named on 15 July 1977, Farah was Minister of the Interior. He was moved to the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation on 2 October 1978, and he remained Foreign Minister for nearly 15 years. In the December 1992 parliamentary election, Farah was the third candidate on the candidate list of the governing People’s Rally for Progress (RPP) for the District of Djibouti. Following the 1992 election, Farah was moved to the position of Minister of Justice, Muslim Affairs and Prisons on 4 February 1993. He represented President Hassan Gouled Aptidon on the National Electoral Commission at the time of the May 1993 presidential election. He opposed the 1994 peace agreement with the moderate faction of the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy (FRUD) rebel group.
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. He was dismissed from his position as Minister of Justice, Muslim Affairs and Prisons by President Gouled on 27 March 1996. He also served as Secretary-General of the RPP, but was removed from the party leadership in 1996. In April 1996, he and his supporters established a new parliamentary group, the Group for Democracy and the Republic; Farah became its President.
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.” As a result of this communiqué, he and the other two deputies were accused of offending the Head of State, and their parliamentary immunity was lifted on 15 June 1996 so that they could be tried on this charge. They appealed the lifting of their parliamentary immunity to the Constitutional Council on 20 June, and it responded favorably in a decision on 31 July 1996. Despite this, they were sentenced to six months in prison on 7 August 1996. They were also fined 200,000 Djiboutian francs and deprived of their civic rights for five years, thereby barring them from seeking election to the National Assembly during that time. A subsequent report to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights asserted that the trial was unfair. Farah joined the Unified Djiboutian Opposition (ODU) after his release and became a member of the ODU’s High Council. 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).
Farah was arrested in early May 1998 on the grounds that he was suspected of financing a radical faction of the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy (FRUD). 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. On 25 November 1998, Farah signed a communiqué together with Abdillahi Hamareiteh, the President of the Party of Democratic Renewal (PRD), and Mahdi Ibrahim God, the President of the Djibouti United Opposition Front (FUOD), providing for the creation of an alliance between the three groups. On 1 October 2001, he and the others convicted of insulting the Head of State in 1996 were granted an amnesty.
Farah subsequently founded the PPSD in 2002; he filed a declaration for the PPSD at the Interior Ministry on 26 October 2002, and Interior Minister Abdoulkader Doualeh Waïs announced that the party was legally registered on 31 October 2002. 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. Accordingly, the PPSD joined the RPP and two other parties in a coalition, the Union for a Presidential Majority (UMP), for the January 2003 parliamentary election. Farah was included as the 21st candidate on the UMP’s candidate list for the District of Djibouti in this election and won a seat (the UMP won all 65 seats in the National Assembly). In the National Assembly, he has served on the External Affairs Commission.
In 2007, a former member of French intelligence said that Farah, while serving as Justice Minister, ordered Bernard Borrel—a French judge who was killed in Djibouti in 1995—to investigate major Djiboutian political figures. Farah released a statement on 15 July 2007 denying this claim. In the February 2008 parliamentary election, Farah was the fifth candidate on the UMP’s candidate list for the District of Djibouti.
On September 1, 2009, Moumin Bahdon Farah died in Paris.

You May Also Like

Teyana Taylor’s net worth, biography, fact, career, awards and life story

Teyana Taylor Net Worth: Teyana Taylor (also known as Teyana Shumpert) is an American singer/songwriter, dancer, rap artist, and actress who has a net worth of $5 million. She began her professional career with an appearance on MTV’s “My Sweet Sixteen” in 2007, and she signed with Star Trek/Interscope Records but never released an album while with the label. After six years of frustration, Taylor parted from the record company amicably and began releasing her own projects independently. She released her first mixtape, “The Misunderstanding of Teyana Taylor,” in early 2012, and the album spawned two singles. She has since signed with G.O.O.D. Music Group and The Island Def Jam Music Group. Teyana released her debut studio album, “VII,” in November 2014, and it reached #1 on the US R&B and US R&B/Hip-Hop charts and #19 on the “Billboard” 200. Taylor followed her successful debut with 2018’s “K.T.S.E.” and 2020’s “The Album,” and she has appeared in several films, including “Stomp the Yard: Homecoming” (2010), “Madea’s Big Happy Family” (2011), and the upcoming “Coming 2 America,” which is set to be released in December 2020. Teyana has also designed sneakers for adidas, launched the Fade2Fit workout apparel line, and created the “Fade 2 Fit” Workout Program. Early Life: Teyana Taylor was born Teyana Me Shay Jacqueli Taylor on December 10, 1990, in New York City. She was raised in Harlem by a single mother, Nikki, who began acting as Teyana’s manager during her teenage years. Taylor’s father has three other children, but she is Nikki’s only child. Teyana began performing when she was 9 years old and participated in several talent competitions, such as the Apollo Theater National All-Stars talent search. Taylor has said that her mother helped shape her musical tastes, and her influences include Lauryn Hill, Michael Jackson, Brandy, Toni Braxton, and Stevie Wonder. Career: At just 15 years old, Teyana was a choreographer on Beyoncé’s 2006 “Ring the Alarm” music video, and the following year, she was signed to Pharrell Williams’ Star Trak Entertainment, an imprint of Interscope Records. She made her television debut on a February 2007 episode of “My Super Sweet Sixteen,” and later that year, she appeared in Jay-Z’s “Blue Magic” video. Taylor released her first commercial single, “Google Me,” in February 2008, and it peaked at #90 on the “Billboard” Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. She released the “From a Planet Called Harlem” mixtape on August 16, 2009, and she appeared in “Stomp the Yard: Homecoming” and the first episode of the Oxygen network’s “House of Glam” in 2010. That year, Teyana also ended up doing guest vocals on Kanye West’s “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” album after he asked her to come by the studio and give him fashion advice for an upcoming music video. While in the studio with West, Taylor hummed along with the songs he played for her, and he asked her to record vocals for the tracks “Hell of a Life” and “Dark Fantasy.” In 2010, Teyana also performed on the track “Christmas In Harlem” for GOOD Music, Kanye’s record label, and landed a role in “Madea’s Big Happy Family.” Taylor left Star Trak in January 2012, independently released the mixtape “The Misunderstanding of Teyana Taylor” in March, and signed with GOOD Music and The Island Def Jam Music Group in June. During that period, she also released the tracks “Make Your Move” (featuring Wale) and “D.U.I” (featuring Jadakiss and Fabolous). In September of that year, Teyana performed on the tracks “To the World,” “Sin City,” and “Bliss” on the album “Cruel Summer,” a GOOD Music compilation that reached #2 on the “Billboard” 200 and #1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart as well as the Top Rap Albums chart. She released her debut studio album, “VII,” on November 4, 2014, and the single “Maybe” peaked at #10 on the “Billboard” Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart and #11 on the Hot R&B Songs chart. In 2015, Taylor served as a judge on MTV’s “America’s Best Dance Crew” and released an EP, “The Cassette Tape 1994.” In August 2016, Kanye West premiered his “Fade” music video at the MTV Video Music Awards, and Teyana earned rave reviews for her performance in the video. Taylor released the album “K.T.S.E” on June 23, 2018, and it reached #2 on the “Billboard” R&B chart. In 2019, she released the singles “Morning” (with Kehlani) and “We Got Love,” and June 2020’s “The Album,” which featured Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu, Missy Elliot, and Rick Ross, hit #1 on the R&B chart and #8 on the “Billboard” 200. Teyana has been featured on tracks by several artists, including Missy Elliott’s “Put it on Ya” (2009), Meek Mill’s “Made It From Nothing” (2017), and T.I.’s “You” (2019). In recent years, she appeared in the films “Honey: Rise Up and Dance” (2018), “The After Party” (2018), and “The Trap” (2019) and the TV series “Star” (2017-2018), “The Breaks” (2017), and “Hit the Floor” (2018). Personal Life: On October 1, 2016, Teyana married professional basketball player Iman Shumpert, who has played for the New York Knicks, Cleveland Cavaliers, Sacramento Kings, Houston Rockets, and Brooklyn Nets. They welcomed daughters Junie and Rue on December 16, 2015, and September 6, 2020, respectively; both children were born at home, and Iman delivered them. In 2018, the couple starred on their own VH1 reality show, “Teyana and Iman.” Awards and Nominations: In 2017, Taylor shared an MTV Video Music Award for Best Choreography for Kanye West’s “Fade” with Guapo, Matthew Pasterisa, Jae Blaze, and Fonzworth Bentley. In 2020, she was named Video Director of the Year at the BET Awards and the BET Hip Hop Awards. Teyana was also nominated for Best Female R&B/Pop Artist and the BET Her Award at the 2019 BET Awards and Best Dance Performance at the Soul Train Music Awards in 2019 and 2020. Real Estate: In 2018, Teyana and Iman paid nearly $3 million for a 5,700 square foot home in the Studio City area of Los Angeles, and they put it on the market for $3.695 million in August 2020. The home includes five bedrooms, 5.5 bathrooms, a gourmet kitchen, a movie theater, a spa bathroom, and a swimming pool.
Read More