Please note that the content of this book mainly consists of articles that are available online from Wikipedia or other free sources. Aden Abdullah Osman Daar (born 1908 in Beledweyne; died June 8, 2007, in Nairobi), also known as Aden Adde, was the first President of Somalia from 1960 to 1967. Osman came from a poor family of the Hawiye clan in the city of Beledweyne in what was then Italian Somaliland. At the age of 14, he was taken care of by an Italian who provided him with education. In 1929, he was employed by the Italian administration. He worked there until he opened a business in his hometown in 1941.