Osman, Aden Abdullah

Osman, Aden Abdullah
▪ 2008

      Somali politician

born 1908, Belet Weyne, Italian Somaliland [now in Somalia]

died June 8, 2007, Nairobi, Kenya
served as independent Somalia's first president and was the first postcolonial African head of state to voluntarily step down after losing an election. Osman was president of the nationalist Somali Youth League (1954–56 and 1958–60) and of the Legislative Assembly (later the Constituent Assembly) of the Italian-administered UN trust territory of Somalia (1958–60). After Italian Somaliland joined with the former British-administered territory to form the independent Somali Republic on July 1, 1960, the National Assembly chose Osman as provisional president. In the country's first election (1961) under its new constitution, he was elected to a six-year term as president. During Osman's tenure Somalia had good relations with the Soviet Union, China, and Italy, but the president struggled to unite Somali-speaking peoples of rival clans in peace and prosperity. When Osman was defeated in the 1967 presidential election, he peacefully handed power over to his successor.

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