Mohamed Aden Sheikh

Mohamed Aden Sheikh (c. 1936 – September 30, 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 عدن الشيخ
Minister of Education Somalia
Writer Politician scholer Doctor
In office
4 Novenbar 1998 – 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 – September 30
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 June 9, 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.

References
  1. 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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