| Sheikh Adan Mohamed Nuur Madobe ادم محمد نور مادوبي |
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| President of Somalia Acting |
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| In office 29 December 2008 – 31 January 2009 |
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| Prime Minister | Nur Hassan Hussein |
| Preceded by | Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed |
| Succeeded by | Sharif Sheikh Ahmed |
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| Born | 1957? Mandera, Kenya |
| Political party | TFG |
Adan Mohamed Nuur Madobe (Somali: Aaden Maxamed Nuur Madoobe], Arabic: عدن محمد نور مادوبي) is a Somali politician and a former Speaker of Parliament of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia. Following the resignation of Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed as President of Somalia in December 2008, he became interim president. Like many Somali politicians, he is a former warlord. He was also a Quranic instructor.[1]
Madobe was born in Mandera in the Northern Frontier District (NFD). He is of the Digil-Mirifle clan, specifically the Hadame subclan.[2]
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Sheikh Adan Madobe[3][4][5] served as the First Deputy Chairman of the Rahanweyn Resistance Army (RRA), one of the factions of the Somali Civil War. According to Adan Madobe, beginning in 1996, the RRA accepted the assistance of Ethiopia in the training of its troops. In 2003, he temporarily split with his fellow RRA leader Hassan Mohamed Nur "Shatigadud" though they later reconciled and both served as ministers in the Transitional Federal Government.[6]
Adan Mohamed Nuur "Madobe" is a representative on the Transitional Federal Parliament (TFP), which in November 2004, authorized the Transitional Federal Government and approved the Transitional Federal Charter in a conference held in Nairobi, Kenya.
He was appointed Justice Minister of the nascent TFG appointed by the approval of Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Ghedi's second cabinet lineup of January 2005,[2] but a new court system was only established in Somalia after the defeat of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) in January 2007.
In May 2005, rival parliamentarian and warlord Muhammad Ibrahim Habsade accused Madobe and Agriculture Minister Hassan Mohamed Nuur "Shatigudud" of attacking Baidoa to take the city on behalf of President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, who later used the city to establish a new interim capital within the country. Nineteen were killed, many of them civilians, and 28 wounded in the fight over the city.[7]
Madobe was elected to the controversial role of speaker in the wake of the dismissal of Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan, who was voted out by the Transitional Federal Parliament on January 17, 2007 because of his sympathetic support of the rival Islamic Courts Union (ICU) which prosecuted a war against the TFG and its Ethiopian allies December 2006–January 2007. Adan Mohamed Nuur "Madobe" was elected to the Speaker's position by the Transitional Federal Parliament (TFP) on January 31, 2007[8] and sworn in on February 3.[9]
In April and May 2010, a rift developed between Madobe and Prime Minister of Somalia, Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, which culminated in Madobe's resignation after parliament later voted to remove him from office.[10]
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| Preceded by Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden |
Speaker of the Transitional Federal Parliament of Somalia 2007–2010 |
Succeeded by TBD |
| Preceded by Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed |
President of Somalia Acting 2008–2009 |
Succeeded by Sharif Ahmed |
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