Hussein Shire

Hussein Shire (, ) was a Somali entrepreneur. He was the owner and CEO of the Gateway Bus Company.

Personal life Shire was born between 1928 and 1929 in Galkaio, Somalia to ethnic Somali parents. He comes from a middle-class background, and belongs to the Sheekhaal Hawiye clan..

Shire spent much of his life running his business empire. On 28 June 2014, he died in a hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa after undergoing knee surgery. According to relatives, he had also been battling a number of kidney-related ailments. Shire was 85 years old. According to his son, Abdullahi Shire, Hussein Shire was among a handful of entrepreneurs to start businesses in the area during the 1950s.

Besides that firm, Shire also owned a number of other businesses. Among these were Shire Petroleum, real estate, Hussein Stores, a shop located along Tagore Road in Tororo, and a 2,000 acre sugarcane plantation that supplied Kakira Sugar Works and Mayuge Sugar Works.