Career
Aden was the first Somali surgeon who received his medical training at the University of Rome and practiced at Mogadishu General Hospital. He enter politics in the 1970s and held various cabinet positions. On June 9, 1982, he was one of seven parliamentarians arrested and accused of treason for having criticized the government of President Siad Barre.
Aden was the president of the Somali National Academy of Sciences and Arts at the time of his arrest.
He was also the former Head of the Ideology Bureau SRRC and Somali Technological Development.
