Biography of yakubu mohd irfan ali

Mohamed Irfaan Ali born 25 April [ 4 ] is a Guyanese politician serving as the tenth and current president of Guyana since He is the first Muslim to hold office, and is the second Muslim head of state in the Americas after Noor Hassanali of Trinidad and Tobago.

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Ali was a member of parliament MP [ 10 ] and served as a cabinet minister under Donald Ramotar until He won the March general election. He was sworn in as Guyana 's tenth president on 2 August , months after his win, due to extensive legal challenges regarding the integrity of the election and a recount of all electoral ballots. The child of two educators and one of two sons, Ali also spent many of his formative years on the island of Leguan.

His maternal great-great-great grandparents were Ujiari and Bujhawan who were from Basi village, Telogepur thana in Basti jela in present-day Uttar Pradesh , India.

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Ali is descended from them through their son Dildar. Dildar, Ujiari, and her four other children and a daughter-in-law immigrated to then British Guiana as indentured laborers in aboard the ship Rhine. They were indentured to Plantation Success in Leguan. Ali completed his secondary education at St. Stanislaus College in Georgetown , Guyana.

In , the university awarded him an Honorary Doctorate. Ali became a member of the National Assembly of Guyana in He was appointed to the portfolios of minister of housing and water [ 18 ] and minister of tourism industry and commerce. During his tenure as minister, Ali performed the functions of president and prime minister on separate occasions.