Aden Adde

Daar was born at Beledweyne in the Hiraan region, of the Udejeen clan of Hawiye, orphaned young, and largely self-taught; he served in the Italian colonial administration from 1929 to 1941 while advocating independence.{cite:source/wikipedia-aden-adde-en} He joined the Somali Youth League in 1944, became its Beledweyne secretary in 1946, rose to the Mudug regional council, and was president of the League in 1954–1956 and again from 1958, simultaneously chairing the National Legislative Assembly from 1956.{cite:source/wikipedia-aden-adde-en}

On 1 July 1960, the day the United Nations recognised Somalia's independence and the former British Somaliland united with it, Daar was elected the republic's first president.{cite:source/wikipedia-aden-adde-en} His administration pursued the recovery of Somali territories held by neighbours — the 1964 border war with Ethiopia among its consequences — and enrolled Somalia in the Non-Aligned Movement, the Organisation of African Unity and the World Muslim Congress, whose sixth conference Somalia hosted in 1966.{cite:source/wikipedia-aden-adde-en} Defeated by his former prime minister Abdirashid Ali Shermarke in the 1967 presidential election, he accepted the result and handed over power, the first African head of state to give up the presidency voluntarily after losing an election.{cite:source/wikipedia-aden-adde-en} In 1990 he signed a manifesto of Somali politicians calling for reconciliation as civil war began and was imprisoned until Barre's regime collapsed; he spent his later years on his farm at Janale, died in hospital in Nairobi on 8 June 2007 aged 98, and received a state funeral, with Mogadishu's airport renamed in his honour.{cite:source/wikipedia-aden-adde-en}

The Arabic article differs from the others on his dates — it ends his presidency on 10 June 1967 against the English 6 July, and gives his death on 28 June 2007 against the English, French and Wikidata's 8 June, which the record follows with the variants kept in its notes.{cite:source/wikipedia-aden-adde-ar}{cite:source/wikipedia-aden-adde-en}

On faith, everything the sources offer is structure: the French infobox gives his religion as Islam, the Arabic infobox's religion field is empty, and Wikidata carries Islam and Sunni Islam on the single item.{cite:source/wikipedia-aden-adde-fr}{cite:source/wikipedia-aden-adde-ar}{cite:source/wikidata-aden-adde} The one religious episode in the English text — Somalia's hosting of the World Muslim Congress in 1966 — is an act of his government, not an attestation of the man.{cite:source/wikipedia-aden-adde-en} One structured family only, so his faith is entered as unknown, with the Sunni reading preserved in the record.

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