Ahmed Dini Ahmed

Ahmed Dini Ahmed
أحمد ديني أحمد
Ahmed in 1977
2nd Prime Minister of Djibouti
In office 12 July 1977 – 5 February 1978
Preceded by	Hassan Gouled Aptidon
Succeeded by	Abdallah Mohamed Kamil
Personal details
Born	c. 1932 Mount Mabla, French Somaliland (present-day Djibouti)
Died	12 September 2004 Djibouti City, Djibouti
Political party	MPL, UDA

Ahmed Dini Ahmed (Afar: Acmad Diini Acmad, Arabic: أحمد ديني أحمد; 1932 – 12 September 2004) was a Djiboutian politician who served as the second Prime Minister of Djibouti. He was trained as a health technician and entered the political realm at age 26.^[1]

He served as Vice-president of the Representative Council of French Somaliland from April 1959 to June 1960, he was a member of the government of Ali Aref Bourhan in 1962–1964, he then participated in the foundation of the Afar Democratic Union (UDA). He was Minister of Home Affairs until 1971. In 1975, he became spokesman for the new African People's League for Independence (LPAI), led by Hassan Gouled Aptidon. He was elected President of National Assembly from May 1977 to July 1977.^[2] In July 1977, he became the Prime Minister of the newly independent Djibouti. In December, after the bombing of the Palm in Zinc, and the consequent ban on the Movement for the Liberation (MPL), he resigned and returned to the opposition.^[1] He led the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy (FRUD), an Afar rebel group, during the civil war of the 1990s; after the group split in 1994, he led a radical faction of FRUD.