Abdoulkader Waberi Askar

Abdoulkader Waberi Askar (1931 – 10 February 1993) was a Djiboutian politician who served as president of the National Assembly from 1979 until his death in 1993. He was a member of the People's Rally for Progress (RPP) party and had previously been a journalist. Biography Askar was born in 1931. He was from the Somali clan of Issa. He was by profession a journalist, and he worked as a presenter for Radio-France Outre-mer in Djibouti from 1956 to 1961. He was a member of the People's Rally for Progress (RPP) party.

Two years after Djiboutian independence, Askar, a member of the new National Assembly, was elected president of the legislature to succeed Saad Warsama Dirie, in May 1979. He was regularly re-elected the president of the legislature and his service in the position ended up spanning 14 years. After his death, the government announced a three-day mourning period, during which all political demonstrations and sporting and cultural events were prohibited. He was succeeded as president of the National Assembly by Said Ibrahim Badoul.