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Somali politician

Faysal Ali Warabe (/audio=En us Faisal Ali Warabe from Somaliland pronunciation (Voice of America). ogg//f//ɑː/'/iː//s//əl// /'/ɑː//l//i// //w//ə/'/r//ɑː//b//i/ fahEEsəl AHlee wəRAHbee; , فيصل علي ورابي; born 1948), also spelled Faisal Ali Warabe, is a Somalilander engineer and politician. He previously served as Director of Planning and Building as well as Regional Director of Somalia's Ministry of Public Works. Additionally, Warabe is the founder and chairman of the Justice and Welfare Party (UCID).

Warabe was born in 1948 in Hargeisa, British Somaliland. He hails from the Eidagale sub clan of the Garhajis Isaaq. Waraabe completed his primary, Intermediate and Secondary education in Somaliland. For his post secondary education, Waraabe studied at Somali National University where he learned courses in teacher training, Warabe studied in the Soviet Union. He earned an M. Sc. in Engineering in 1973 from an institution in Leningrad. Warabe received Finnish citizenship in 1999.

Warabe's son Sayid Hussein Feisal Ali Warabe (born 1991) died on 29 December 2017 in Syria. Sayid Hussein Feisal Ali, who had Finnish citizenship and who was also known as Abu Shuayb as Somali (from Finland), had traveled from Finland to Syria in early 2013 to become a jihadi fighter, first joining al Nusra and later ISIS. His cousin, Abu Mansuur Somali, also left Leppävaara for Syria and it is believed the two became radicalised together. Faysal Ali, who had warned Finnish authorities about his son, believes Sayid Hussein Feisal Ali was killed in an airstrike.

An engineer by profession, Warabe began his career as the president of AYAAN, a local Somali construction company. He later worked as a Chief Engineer in Mogadishu. Warabe subsequently served with the Somalia central government as the Director of Planning and Building in the Ministry of Public Works. He was later appointed the Ministry's Regional Director. In 2001, Warabe founded the Justice and Welfare Party (UCID) in Somaliland. Serving as the political association's Chairman, UCID came in third place in the 2003 regional elections, receiving 16% of votes.