Nur Hassan Hussein aka Nur Adde ‑ a Somali politician who served as Prime Minister of Somalia from November 2007 to February 2009 – succumbed to Covid-19 on 1 April 2020.
He was from Mogadishu and part of the Abgaal sub-clan of the Hawiye.
Hussein began his professional career in the early 1950s as a police officer for Italian Somaliland before Somalia gained its independence. After completing studies in Law at the Somalia National University and the Fiscal Law School in Rome, Hussein became chief police officer and attorney general in 1987 under President Siad Barre, 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 22 November 2007,...
