Mukhtal Dahir

Mukhtal Dahir
Leader of the Nasrullah Movement
Dahir in the 1960s
Bornc. 1894
Ogaden (modern-day Somali Region, Ethiopia)
Died2000
IssueBashir Ahmed Makhtal (grandson)
ReligionIslam

Mukhtal Dahir (Somali: Makhtal Dahir; Arabic: مختل ظاهر‎; c. 1894 – 2000) was a Somali traditional leader and nationalist figure from the Ogaden region. He is best known as the founding leader of the Nasrullah movement, an early insurgency that fought against Ethiopian rule in the Ogaden from 1963 onwards. The movement is regarded as a direct predecessor to the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) and the Western Somali Liberation Front.

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