Egal opposed Hussen and derided him to American diplomats

Evidence

Among those who were vehemently opposed to Hussen was Mohamed Ibrahim Egal, one of the leaders of the SNC, who told a senior American diplomat at the US embassy that [Hussen] is unpopular and has many enemies, including himself, and that the SNC would certainly vote against him at every opportunity that presented itself. Egal stated that the Italians also don’t like [Hussen] because he is not corruptible and that he has many foes among provincial governors because of his arbitrary and high-handed way of forcing decisions and acting without any sense of compromise… . Egal stated that [Hussen] is rather tactless person and was not a good politician because he was very willful. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 731

Categorization

• XREF: Documents the Egal-Hussen rivalry, a thread central to the reader’s reconstruction of factional politics in the 1960s.