Ali Khalif Galaid

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Ali Khalif Galaid (Somali: Cali Khalif Gallaydh) is a former Prime Minister of Somalia.

In October of 2000, President Abdiqasim Salad Hassan named Ali Khalif Galaid as prime minister. They return to Somalia from their Djibouti exile on October 14. On October 15 Ismail Mahmud Hurre is named foreign minister. On October 20 the rest of the cabinet is announced: Abdullahi Baqor Musa as defense minister, Dahir Shaykh Muhammad as interior minister, and Sayid Shaykh Dahir as finance minister.

Ali Khalif Galaid currently lives in the United States, in Minnesota. He is known to be an active part of a large Somalian community in an area of Minneapolis called the West Bank. He is a professor at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute for the study of public policy, and is listed as "Ali K. Galaydh" at that institution. He teaches, among other topics, about economic development in the third world.