A senior member of the 1967 regime took Ethiopian money before leading

Evidence

Whatever the truth about the former Foreign Affairs minister, circumstantial evidence indicates that a senior member of the new regime was also involved in a financial transaction with the Ethiopian government before he became a senior leader in the new government. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 1481

Categorization

• QUESTION: This hints at corruption/foreign-buying of Somali officials in the run-up to the 1967 change of government — worth investigating who this senior member was and how it affected Somalia-Ethiopia relations.