Moumin Bahdon Farah

Moumin Bahdon Farah (24 October 1939 – 1 September 2009) was a Djiboutian politician and the President of the Social Democratic People's Party (PPSD). He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1978 to 1993 and Minister of Justice from 1993 to 1996. Prior to independence, he became Minister of the Interior, Posts and Telecommunications in 1976, as part of the transitional government headed by Abdallah Mohamed Kamil. He was moved to the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation on 2 October 1978, and he remained Foreign Minister for nearly 15 years. Following the 1992 election, Farah was moved to the position of Minister of Justice, Muslim Affairs and Prisons on 4 February 1993. He represented President Hassan Gouled Aptidon on the National Electoral Commission at the time of the May 1993 presidential election. He opposed the 1994 peace agreement with the moderate faction of the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy (FRUD) rebel group.

Opposition efforts In 1995, Farah led a faction of the government that opposed Prime Minister Barkat Gourad Hamadou and the head of the Cabinet, Ismail Omar Guelleh. He was dismissed from his position as Minister of Justice, Muslim Affairs and Prisons by President Gouled on 27 March 1996. In April 1996, he and his supporters established a new parliamentary group, the Group for Democracy and the Republic; Farah became its President. and their parliamentary immunity was lifted on 15 June 1996 so that they could be tried on this charge. They appealed the lifting of their parliamentary immunity to the Constitutional Council on 20 June, and it responded favorably in a decision on 31 July 1996. Despite this, they were sentenced to six months in prison on 7 August 1996. They were also fined 200,000 Djiboutian francs and deprived of their civic rights for five years, thereby barring them from seeking election to the National Assembly during that time. Along with Boulaleh Barreh and 15 soldiers, Farah was charged with fomenting military unrest and plotting a coup; they were put on trial in September 1998. On 25 November 1998, Farah signed a communiqué together with Abdillahi Hamareiteh, the President of the Party of Democratic Renewal (PRD), and Mahdi Ibrahim God, the President of the Djibouti United Opposition Front (FUOD), providing for the creation of an alliance between the three groups. Speaking in a television interview on 22 November 2002, Farah said that his new party was not part of the opposition, expressing support for the government and stating that the PPSD planned to ally with the RPP. Farah was included as the 21st candidate on the UMP's candidate list for the District of Djibouti in this election and won a seat

In 2007, a former member of French intelligence said that Farah, while serving as Justice Minister, ordered Bernard Borrel—a French judge who was killed in Djibouti in 1995—to investigate major Djiboutian political figures. Farah released a statement on 15 July 2007 denying this claim. In the February 2008 parliamentary election, Farah was the fifth candidate on the UMP's candidate list for the District of Djibouti. Death

On September 1, 2009, Moumin Bahdon Farah died in Paris.