Ali Yusuf Kenadid

Ali Yusuf Kenadid (Cali Yuusuf Keenadiid, علي يوسف كينيديد; died 1927) was a Somali Sultan and the second ruler of the Sultanate of Hobyo.

History
Ali Yusuf was born into a Majeerteen Darod family. His father, Sultan Yusuf Ali Kenadid, was the founder of the Sultanate of Hobyo centered in present-day northeastern and central Somalia. The polity was established in the 1870s on territory carved out of the ruling Majeerteen Sultanate (Migiurtinia). Ali Yusuf's brother, Osman Yusuf Kenadid, would go on to invent the Osmanya writing script for the Somali language. In an attempt to advance his own expansionist objectives, Kenadid père in late 1888 entered into a treaty with the Italians, making his realm an Italian protectorate. The terms of the agreement specified that Italy was to steer clear of any interference in the sultanate's administration. However, the relationship between Hobyo and Italy soured when the elder Kenadid refused the Italians' proposal to allow a British contingent of troops to disembark in his Sultanate so that they might then pursue their battle against the Dhulbahante garad and Darawiish monarch Diiriye Guure and his emir, Mohammed Abdullah Hassan's Dervish forces. Ali Yusuf sought an alliance from the powerful Habr Yunis Sultanate through intermarriage, but was rebuffed by the Sultan Madar Hersi He was then exiled by the Italians where he later died of smallpox.