Nur Hassan Hussein
| Nur Hassan Hussein Adde نور حسن حسين |
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| Prime Minister of Somalia | |
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In office 24 November 2007 – 14 February 2009 |
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Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed Adan Mohamed Nuur Madobe (Acting) Sharif Sheikh Ahmed |
| Deputy | Ahmed Abdisalam |
| Preceded by | Salim Aliyow Ibrow (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke* |
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16 February 1937 Near Juba River,Somalia |
| Political party | TFG |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
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Nur Hassan Hussein Adde (Somali: Nuur Xasan Xuseen Cadde, Arabic: نور حسن حسين), was the Prime Minister of Somalia from November 2007 to February 2009. He is from Mogadishu and is part of the Abgaal sub-clan of the Hawiye.
Hussein began his professional career in 1958 as a customs officer, two years before Somalia gained its independence. He rose through the ranks, becoming an Interpol liaison officer and eventually the country's chief police officer in charge of planning and training under the former regime of longtime President Siad Barre.
After completing studies in Law at the Somalia National University and the Fiscal Law School in Rome, Hussein became attorney general, a post he held until 1991 when the Somali Civil War broke out. He subsequently served as the Secretary General of the Somali Red Crescent Society (SRCS).
On November 22, 2007, then President of Somalia, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, nominated Hussein as Prime Minister of the Transitional Federal Government following the earlier resignation of Ali Mohammed Ghedi on October 29. Salim Aliyow Ibrow served as Interim Prime Minister between the tenure of Gedi and Hussein. Hussein was approved by Transitional Federal Parliament in Baidoa on November 24, receiving 211 out of 212 votes, and he was sworn in immediately afterwards. Hussein's government, which he described as "all-inclusive", was appointed on December 2, with 73 members; included in the government were 31 ministers, 11 state ministers and 31 assistant ministers. Hussein received some criticism for the exceptionally large size of the Somali government; according to Hussein, in naming the government he followed the "4.5" formula or quota required by the 2004 Transitional Federal Charter, which provides for the division of posts between four main clans and a grouping of smaller clans. Four of the ministers—Hasan Muhammad Nur Shatigadud (who had been appointed Minister of Home Security), Abdikafi Hassan, Sheikh Aden Maden, and Ibrahim Mohamed Isaq—promptly resigned on December 3, complaining that their clan, the Rahanwein (one of the four major clans), was inadequately represented in the government and that they had not been consulted on their appointments beforehand. On December 4, Deputy Minister for Religious Affairs Sheikh Jama Haji Hussein also resigned, complaining of unfair allocation of posts in the government for his clan, the Jarerweyne, which is one of the smaller clans.
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