section_path: Early life and education
section_name: Early life and education
paragraph_text: Early life and education
  
  Mahamoud Ali Youssouf was born on 2 September 1965 in Djibouti City. He received his basic education in Djibouti. He is Afar.
  
  Yousouf's further educational journey took him to the United Kingdom, France, and Canada. He studied business management at the University of Liverpool and obtained his master's degree in management in 1990. He wrote his thesis at the Free University of Brussels in the 1990s.