Mustafe was born in 1972 in
Aware, in the
Jarar Mustafe attended primary and intermediate school in the Aware district of the Jarar region. His family relocated to
Degahbur where he started secondary school at
Degahbur. He attended
Addis Ababa University where he received an undergraduate degree in economics. He also received a Master's in Science in Agricultural Economics from
Imperial College London.
Other venture Mustafe became a teacher at the Jijiga college and was later promoted to vice deputy assistant. He served as deputy of the Somali regional education office. He worked with international non-governmental institutions in different positions such as Save the Children, Oxfam and OCHA. During work in the
United Nations, he was a critic of the ex-president of the Somali Region. ==References==