Ali Mahdi Muhammad — Arabic Wikipedia

Arabic Wikipedia article on Ali Mahdi Muhammad; used for entity facts only. It recounts his birth in 1938 in a village of Middle Shabelle in a Sufi family whose father followed the Idrisiyya order, and his election as president at Djibouti in 1991 after Barre's overthrow. The family's Sufi background is background, not a personal attestation; its 1938 birth year differs from the English article and Wikidata (1939).