Daher Ahmed Farah

Daher Ahmed Farah, also known as DAF, is a Djiboutian politician and writer,^[1] who was born in 1962 in Dikhil.

Biography

Training

Farah successful in 1983 the Inter-African admission to the competition Special Military School of Saint-Cyr, and studied management at Reims and Limoges. Military is in the Djibouti army from 1983 to 1991. In 1991, he began working at the government newspaper The Nation, which are briefly editor in 1992.

Political activities

In 1994, he participated in the formation of the Democratic Renewal Party (PRD) with Mohamed Djama Elabe and Suleiman Farah Lodon. He became president in July 1997. As he led the revival, opposition newspaper. He was jailed in October 1997 for management of an illegal political party, in August 1999 for publishing false news, in June 2001 for concealment of public documents, and in August 2003 for defamation. He then left Djibouti and he fled to Brussels where he heads the "Movement for Democratic Renewal and Development". He took Belgian nationality. In 2013, he returned to Djibouti and this under the banner of the Union for national salvation (USN - opposition) in the parliamentary elections of 22 February 2013, finally officially won by the ruling party. Not elected, he was arrested again on March 5 and sentenced to three months in prison on March 17, 2013. He was provisionally released six weeks later on 12 May, after serving six weeks in prison, however he still faced charges of “being in contact with a foreign power” and “undermining the army’s morale.”^[2] On 26 June 2013, an appeals court found Farah guilty of "refusing to comply with a judicial order" and sentenced him to a two-month jail sentence. He surrendered to authorities on 2 July, and was immediately jailed. He was released after again serving six weeks in jail, on 14 August.^[3] In September, he traveled to Brussels, Belgium, where he organized demonstrations. On 1 October he returned to Djibouti and was immediately arrested and imprisoned.^[4]

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