Abdulkadir Mohamed Aden "Zoppo" (Somali: Cabdulqaadir Maxamed Aadan Zoobe, Arabic: عبدالقادر محمد آدم زوبي), commonly known as Abdulkadir Zoppo or Abdulkadir Soobe, was a Somali politician and former Vice President of Somalia and Minister of Finance.
Abdulkadir Mohamed Aden "Zoppo" | |
|---|---|
| Vice President of Somalia | |
| In office August 1991 – January 1993 | |
| President | Ali Mahdi Muhammad |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1919 Bulo Burti |
| Died | 2002 Rome |
| Political party | Hizbiya Digil-Mirifle Somali Youth League |
Aden was born in 1919 in Bulo Burti.[1] He was a businessman and politician from the Reewin clan.[2] He was a member of Patriotic Benevolent Society in Baidoa in 1940s. He joined Somali Youth League in 1947. In 1950 he joined Hizbiya Digil-Mirifle party. He was elected member of the legislative assembly in the 1956 elections. He was elected as the vice president of Somalia National Assembly in May 1959.[3][1] He re-joined Somali Youth League in 1959. Aden was appointed as the first Minister of Finance of independent Somalia from 1960 to 1964.[1] He was appointed as Minister of Interior in 1964. He founded a new party in 1968, and was not re-elected as a member of the assembly in the 1969 elections.[1]
During the era of Mohamed Siad Barre Aden focused on his business ventures.[1] In the 1980s he joined the opposition against Siad Barre. In 1989, he signed the Manifesto and joined his clansmen in forming the SDM, a paramilitary and political organisation aimed at liberating the Inter riverine region from the Siad Barre regime. Zoobe is credited as an early forerunner of Federalism in Somalia[4] having personally led a campaign since 1950. Aden was the First Vice President in the Interim Government of Somalia[1][5] from August 1991 to January 1993. He was a co-chairperson of the National Salvation Council in Sodere in 1997.
He died in Rome in 2002.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g Mukhtar, Mohamed Haji (2003). Historical Dictionary of Somalia. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6604-1.
- ^ I. M. Lewis, A pastoral democracy: a study of pastoralism and politics among the Northern Somali of the Horn of Africa, (LIT Verlag Münster: 1999), p.304.
- ^ James S. Coleman, Political Parties and National Integration in Tropical Africa, (University of California Press: 1966), p.539.
- ^ Abdullahi Abdurahman, Making sense of Somali History, Volume 1, (Adonis and Abbey Publishers Press: 2017), p.123.
- ^ Chiefs of State and Cabinet members of foreign governments / National Foreign Assessment Center. 1991 no.1-6. 2003. hdl:2027/msu.31293009634555.
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