@addisstandardeng · Post #21596 · 03.03.2026 г., 15:51
Memorial park honoring prominent #Somali anti-colonial leader Sayyid Mohammed Abdullah Hassan inaugurated in #Jigjiga A new memorial park honoring Sayyid Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, the early 20th century Somali scholar, poet and anti-colonial military leader, has been officially inaugurated in Jigjiga, capital of #Ethiopia’s Somali Regional State. Known in Somali as Maxamed Cabdulle Xasan, Sayyid Mohammed Abdullah Hassan is know to have founded and led the Dervish movement, which waged armed resistance against #British, #Italian and Ethiopian colonial expansion in the Somali Peninsula. While widely revered by many Somalis as a symbol of anti-colonial struggle, he was pejoratively labeled the “Mad Mullah” by the British Empire. In 1917, the Ottoman Empire recognized him as the “Emir of the Somali People.” Regional President Mustafa Muhummed presided over the ribbon-..... https://web.facebook.com/AddisstandardEng/posts/pfbid035zhG5D71mJR7UdFHybuQqaDPAcU8msaQNqQShDRQ5NYGVkbYXYFHbQGW62n97vmrl