Aden Adde

Aden Abdulle Osman Daar (Aaden Cabdulle Cusmaan Daar) (9 December 1908 – 8 June 2007), was a Somali politician. 

In February 1944, he joined the Somali Youth Club (later called the Somali Youth League). The group was a nationalist party that wanted independence for Somalia. Daar became a member of the party's steering board. In 1946, he was appointed as the secretary of one section of the party. He was chairman of the Somali Youth League from 1954 to 1956, and again from 1958 to 1959. In 1956, he was elected chairman of the Legislative Assembly.

When Somalia gained its independence on July 1, 1960, Daar was elected as the first president of Somalia. He was beaten in the 1967 presidential election against Abdirashid Ali Shermarke. He finished his term as president on June 10, 1967.

Daar died in hospital on 8 June 2007 at a hospital in Nairobi, Kenya at the age of 98.Aweys Osman Yusuf, "Somalia: First President Dies At the Age of 99", Shabelle Media Network (allAfrica.com), 22 May 2007.Mohamed Abdi Farah, "Somalia: Former president in coma (correction)" , SomaliNet, 22 May 2007."Somalia's first president dies at age 98" , Associated Press (International Herald Tribune), 8 June 2007.

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Category:1908 births
Category:2007 deaths
Category:Presidents of Somalia