Mohamed Aden Sheikh

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Mohamed Aden Sheikh (c. 1936 – 30 September 2010) was a Somali medical doctor and politician who held posts as Minister of Health, Minister of Education, and Minister of Information.[1]

Mohamed Aden Sheikh
محمد آدم الشيخ
Minister of Education Somalia
Writer Politician scholer Doctor
In office
4 Novenbar 1988 – 17 January 1990
Prime MinisterAbdirahman Jama Bare
Minister of Health of Somalia
In office
4 November 1987 – 17 January 1979
Minister of Information of Somalia
Personal details
Born1936
Kismayo, Somalia
Political partySYL

Aden was the first Somali surgeon who received his medical training at the University of Rome and practiced at Mogadishu General Hospital.[1] He enter politics in the 1970s and held various cabinet positions.[1] Aden was also a central committee member of the only political party allowed in Somalia, the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party.[1] On 9 June 1982, he was one of seven parliamentarians arrested and accused of treason for having criticized the government of President Siad Barre.[1] Aden was the president of the Somali National Academy of Sciences and Arts at the time of his arrest.[1]

He was also the former Head of the Ideology Bureau SRRC and Somali Technological Development.[citation needed]

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  1. ^ a b c d e f National Academy of Sciences: Committee on Human Rights; Institute of Medicine: Committee on Health and Human Rights (1988). "The Parliamentarians". Scientists and Human Rights in Somalia: Report of a Delegation. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press. p. 22.
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