found: Dictionary of African Biography, accessed February 25, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Mariano, Michael; political figure, ambassador; born 03 January 1914 in Berbera, Somalia; enrolled in a Catholic mission school; obtained a civil service job with the British Colonial Administration of Somaliland (1934); founded a trucking company to transport goods between Ethiopia, Somaliland, and Djibouti; was a close associate of the Somaliland freedom fighters of the 1940s; secretary-general of the National United Front (NUF); became a member of the united parliament of the Somali Republic; became a notary public in Mogadishu and started a quarrying business; appointed to the post of minister of economic planning; served as ambassador to Zambia and Southern Africa; died 09 July 1987 in Mogadishu, Somalia)