Ibrahim Maygaag Samatar

Ibrahim Megag Samatar (aka Ibrahim Maygaag Samatar; c. 1939 – 31 January 2011) was a Somali politician and economist.

He is said to have been born in Hargeisa, British Somaliland, but he was born in Qullad , Ethiopia, a town between Hargeisa and Aware, Ethiopia.

He studied at Yale University and the University of California, Riverside in the United States, and returned to Somalia in the cabinet of Siad Barre, who came to power after the coup d'état. After serving as Minister of Industry, he defected to the United States in 1981 when he was Ambassador to West Germany.

After his exile, he served as the North American representative of the Somali National Movement. He was elected to the House of Representatives at the National Reconciliation Grand Council in Borama in 1993, but soon resigned and retired from politics.

Personal life His passport gave his date of birth as 20 February 1942 but is believed to have been born between 1939 and 1941. The BBC reported he was born in 1939. He died on 31 January 2011 at his home in Tōgane, Chiba Prefecture.