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Osman Mohammud Dufle

Somali physician and politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ17299924 ↗
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Osman Mohammud Dufle (Somali: Cismaan Maxamed Dufle, Arabic: عثمان محمود ضوفلآ) is a Somali physician and politician. He previously served as a Minister of Health in the Transitional National Government of Somalia. He was also one of the founders of the Joint Medical Committee, a professional organization for doctors in the country. He served as a volunteer at the Keysaney Hospital in Mogadishu. In June 2014, he was nominated for a Nobel Prize in recognition of his humanitarian work.

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The public source identifies “Osman Mohammud Dufle” as somali physician and politician. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Osman, Mohammud and Dufle.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Osman, Mohammud and Dufle providing the first useful test.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17299924. The first chronological checks are 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “Osman Mohammud Dufle” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.