Former Somalia President Ali Muhammad dies in Nairobi

Former Somalia president Ali Mahdi Muhammad has died at a Nairobi hospital after being hospitalised with Covid-19.

Somalia Information ministry spokesperson Ismael Omar confirmed the death.

Muhammad served as the President of Somalia from January 1991 to January 1997.

He was opposed by Gen Aidid and re-elected during a conference in Djibouti in July 1991.

He was nominally president until the election of Abdiqasim Salad in August 2000.

Mahdi was born in Addow Uul, Middle Shabelle.