Bur’i Mohamed Hamza

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Bur’i Mohamed Hamza
البرعي محمد حمزة
State Minister of Finance
In office
25 October 2014 – 17 December 2014
Prime MinisterAbdiweli Sheikh Ahmed
State Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Somalia
In office
17 January 2014 – 25 October 2014
Prime MinisterAbdiweli Sheikh Ahmed
Succeeded byAbdullahi Mohamed Noor
Member of the Federal Parliament of Somalia
In office
20 August 2012 – 17 January 2014
Prime MinisterAbdi Farah Shirdon
Succeeded byAbdullahi Mohamed Noor
Personal details
Born1945
Somalia
Died25 June 2016
Mogadishu, Somalia
Political partyIndependent

Burʽi Mohamed Hamza (Somali: Burci Maxamed Xamza, Arabic: البرعي محمد حمزة (born 1945 – died 25 June 2016) was a Somali politician. From August 2012 to January 2014, he was a Member of the Federal Parliament of Somalia.

He later served as the State Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Somalia from January to October 2014. He served as the State Minister of Finance until December 2014. He was the State Minister of the Premier's Office for Environment at the time of his death.

Hamza died during an attack by at least four al-Shabab militants on the Hotel Naso-Hablod in Mogadishu on 25 June 2016. His room collapsed on him after it was damaged by a car bomb.[1] The hotel was "frequented by apostate government workers", explained spokesman Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab to Reuters.[2]

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