Aden Abdullahi Nur Gabyow

General Aden Abdullahi Nur عدن عبد الله نور
Minister of Defense
In office 1986–1988
Preceded by	Muhammad Ali Samatar
Personal details
Born	Mado Gashi, North Eastern Province Kenya
Died	5 June 2002 Nairobi, Kenya
Political party	Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party (SRSP)

Aden Abdullahi Nur (Somali: Aadan Cabdulaahi Nuur, Arabic: عدن عبد الله نور‎‎), also known as Aadan Gabyow was Somali politician and a military general in the Somali National Army. He served as Minister of Defence under President Siad Barre from 1986 to 1988.

Aden Abdullahi Nur was born in Mado Gashi, North Eastern Province Kenya. He joined the King's African Rifles in 1947 and undertook his military training in the second capital city of Uganda, Jinja. He finished training the same year and was transferred to Jigjiga, Somali Region Ethiopia.

When he finished duty in Jigjiga, he was sent to Kismayo only to be sent back to Kenya when the British handed the territory over to Italy. Gabyow was among British troops who were sent to fight in Korea until 1952. He had previously fought in the Malayan Emergency. In 1952 he was sent to Britain and was among the African troops sent to Britain to attend the coronation Queen Elizabeth II.

In 1963, Gabyow became a platoon leader in the new Kenyan army but was reduced to a private forcing him to leave the army. In 1970 he made his way to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from where he was transported to Mogadishu by the Somali embassy. Because of his experience fighting communists in Asia, he was sent to the Soviet Union for four years' training. He became head of a new police station and was later appointed head of Halane military training station in 1976. He was promoted to the rank of Colonel the same year.

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