Career
At the roundtable talks in Paris regarding Djibouti"s independence in 1977, Hassan was the spokesman of the Front for the Liberation of the Somali Coast. He was later Technical Adviser to the Ministry of Health from May 1994 to April 1996. Subsequently he was Director of the Peltier General Hospital—the country"s main hospital, located in the city of Djibouti—from August 1996 to December 1997.
He was re-elected in the January 2003 parliamentary election as the 14th candidate on the candidate list of the Union for a Presidential Majority (Universiti Malaysia Pahang) coalition in Djibouti Region.
Following this election, Hassan was elected as the Second Vice-President of the National Assembly on 21 January 2003. Hassan was not included on the Universiti Malaysia Pahang"s candidate list for the February 2008 parliamentary election, but subsequently he was appointed as an ambassador on 1 April 2008.
