Adan Mohamed Nuur Madobe

Sheikh Adan Mohamed Nuur "Madobe" ( _so. "Sheekh Aaden Maxamed Nuur [Sheekh Aaden Madoobe"] , _ar. عدن محمد نور مادوبي) was a former cabinet minister and the present Speaker of Parliament of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia. Like many Somali politicians, he is a former warlord. He was also a Quranic instructor.cite news
title=Ex-Somali warlord elected new parliament speaker
url=http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/070131/world/somalia_politics_parliament_2
date=2007-01-31
publisher=Agence France-Presse
accessdate=2007-02-03 ]

Sheikh Adan Madowe, born in Mandheera, currently Kenya, is of the Digil-Mirifle clan lineage, specifically the Hadame subclan.cite web
title=Prime Minister Geedi announced his second cabinet line up
url=http://www.somali-civilsociety.org/downloads/press/List%20Cabinet%20Ministers%208_%20Jan_05.pdf
accessdate=2007-02-03 ]

Rahanweyn Resistance Army (RRA)

He 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.cite web
title=Report of the Panel of Experts on Somalia pursuant to Security Council resolution 1425 (2002)
url=http://www.somali-civilsociety.org/downloads/UN%20Panel%20of%20Experts%20Report%20-%2025%20March%202003.pdf
date=2003-02-24
publisher=United Nations Security Council
accessdate=2007-02-03] ]

Transitional Federal Government

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 2005cite web
title=Prime Minister Geedi announced his second cabinet line up
url=http://www.somali-civilsociety.org/downloads/press/List%20Cabinet%20Ministers%208_%20Jan_05.pdf
accessdate=2007-02-03 ] , 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 Mohamed 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.cite news
title=Somali factions fight for key town, 19 killed
url=http://www.sabcnews.com/Article/PrintWholeStory/0,2160,105535,00.html
date=2005-05-30
publisher=SABC News
accessdate=2007-02-03 ]

He 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, 2007cite news
title= Somalia's parliament elects new speaker
url=http://www.wardheernews.com/News_07/Jan/31_new_elect_speaker.html
publisher=Reuters
date=2007-01-31
accessdate=2007-02-03 ] and sworn in on February 3.cite news
title=Somali parliament gets new speaker
url=http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2B5FF934-88F7-422A-8788-3D3C50D2EFD8.htm
date=2007-02-23
publisher=Aljazeera
accessdate=2007-02-03 ]

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