| Haji Farah Ali Omar الحاج فرح علي عمر |
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| Minister for Economic Affairs of Somalia | |
| In office 1956–1960 |
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| Born | 1907 Jamaame, Somalia |
Haji Farah Ali Omar (Somali: Xaaji Faarax Cali Cumar, Arabic: الحاج فرح علي عمر) (b. 1907) was a Somali politician. He was a senior official in the government of the Trust Territory of Somalia and later served as Minister of Economic Affairs in Somalia's post-independence civilian administration.[1]
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Omar was born in 1907 in the town of Jamaame, situated in the southern Jubba region of Somalia. His family later lived in Shalaambood in the Shabelle/Jubba river valleys.
Omar served as a Party Representative in the Territorial Council from 1952 to 1956. He was later appointed Minister for Economic Affairs in the Trust Territory of Somalia (1956) and the post-independence civilian government led by President Aden Abdullah Osman Daar.
As a member of the government both before and after Somalia's independence, Omar was a member of various missions to the United States and to the United Nations.[2]