Mustafa Mohammed Omar

Mustafa Mohammed Omar
Mustafe Muxumed Cumar
Chief Administrator of Somali Region
Assumed office
22 August 2018
DeputyIbrahim
Preceded byAbdi Mohamoud Omar
Personal details
Born1972 (age 5253)
Aware, Hararghe Province, Ethiopian Empire
(present-day Aware, Somali Region, Ethiopia)
Political partyProsperity Party
Other political
affiliations
Ethiopian Somali People's Democratic Party

Mustafa Muhumed Omar (Somali: Mustafe Muxumed Cumar; born 1972), also called Cagjar, is an somali politician who is the current president of the Somali Region and also the Deputy Chairman of the Somali Democratic Party, a member of Ethiopia’s newly formed Prosperity Party led by Abiy Ahmed, the sitting Prime Minister of Ethiopia.

Mustafa was appointed to the acting presidency on 22 August 2018 becoming the 13th president of somali region following a political crisis where the Ethiopian military forced Abdi Mohamoud Omar to resign after a stand-off with the central government. Omer has previously worked as a teacher activist, and humanitarian in food security (pastoral and agro-pastoral livelihoods), partnership, resource mobilization, and strategic planning roles in different NGOs. He previously served as an advisor to the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia.