Ahmed Dini Ahmed was a Djibouti

Djibouti

Djibouti , officially the Republic of Djibouti , is a country in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Eritrea in the north, Ethiopia in the west and south, and Somalia in the southeast. The remainder of the border is formed by the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden at the east...

an politician. He served as Vice-President of the Government Council

Heads of government of Djibouti

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 from 1959 to 1960 as a member of the African People's League for Independence (LPAI) and was later Prime Minister of Djibouti

Heads of government of Djibouti

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 from 1977 to 1978. He led the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy

Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy

The Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy , is a political party in Djibouti. It is aligned with the interests of the Afar people who live in that country, although it has supporters residing outside of Djibouti....

 (FRUD), an Afar rebel group, during the civil war of the 1990s

Djiboutian Civil War

The Djiboutian Civil War was a conflict in Djibouti between the People's Rally for Progress government and the predominantly Afar rebel group, the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy...

; after the group split in 1994, he led a radical faction of FRUD.

Ahmed, a member of the Afar

Afar

Afar may refer to:*Afar people, ethnic group principally residing in Djibouti, Eritrea and Ethiopia*Afar Insurgency, alternative name for the Djiboutian Civil War of November 1991-December 1994*Afar Triangle, a geological depression near the Horn of Africa...

 ethnic group, was born near Mount Mabla in the north of Djibouti. Following independence, Ahmed became Prime Minister as well Minister in charge of Urban and Regional Planning (Aménagement du territoire) and the Creation of New Resources in July 1977.

He led FRUD in its armed struggle against the government, which began in 1991. FRUD split in 1994, and a moderate faction led by Ali Mohamed Daoud

Ali Mohamed Daoud

Ali Mohamed Daoud, also known as Jean-Marie , is a Djiboutian politician and the President of the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy . He is currently a member of the National Assembly of Djibouti....

 entered negotiations with the government (signing a peace agreement in December 1994), while Ahmed continued to lead a radical faction which vowed to continue to fight. The radical faction held a congress in late September 1994 and elected Dini as head of its executive committee. Following the signing of a reconciliation agreement between his faction and the government in February 2000, Dini returned to Djibouti from Yemen

Yemen

The Republic of Yemen , commonly known as Yemen , is a country located in the Middle East, occupying the southwestern to southern end of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the north, the Red Sea to the west, and Oman to the east....

 on 29 March 2000, ending nine years of exile.

In the January 2003 parliamentary election

Djiboutian parliamentary election, 2003

The 2003 Djiboutian parliamentary election took place in Djibouti on the 10 January 2003 to elect the National Assembly of Djibouti. The ruling coalition of President Ismail Omar Guelleh won all 65 seats in the election defeating an opposition coalition....

, he was the first candidate on the candidate list of the opposition coalition, the Union for a Democratic Alternative (UAD), in the District of Djibouti

Djibouti (city)

The City of Djibouti is the capital and largest city in the Republic of Djibouti, a nation in the Horn of Africa. The biggest settlement on the Gulf of Tadjoura, it lies on a peninsula that separates that basin from the Gulf of Aden.-History:...

; however, the coalition did not win any seats.

He died on 12 September 2004 at a French military hospital in Djibouti.