The ousted SYL president founded the Greater Somali League
Evidence
Two months later he announced the formation of a new party, the Greater Somali League. A not insignificant number of SYL members from the rank and file shifted their loyalty to the new party, but all key personalities remained in the SYL. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 358
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 358
- XREF: connects to: Adan ‘Abdulle engineered the split that gave rise to the Greater Somali League; Haji Mohamed Hussein founded the Greater Somali League as his splinter party; Expelled from the League, Haji Muhammad founding the Greater Somali League. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 411 (+1 more)