On 4 June 1984, the BBC Summary of World Broadcasts reported on the Cabinet reshuffle within the Somali Government. Adan Abdullahi Nur was named Deputy Minister of Defence on 31 May 1984. [
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Keesing's Record of World Events, vol. XXXIII, (London: Longman Publishing Group), April 1987, p.35042.] It was not until the Cabinet reshuffle of 22 December 1987 that Maj.-Gen. Adan Abdullahi Nur, was appointed to the post of Minister of Defence. [Keesing's Record of World Events, vol.XXXIV (London: Longman Publishing Group), July 1988, p. 36004.; BBC Summary of World Broadcasts, 24 December 1987.] Several sources use the Defence Minister's nick name, Adan Gabiyow, meaning poet. [BBC Summary of World Broadcasts, 8 February 1988.] Mogadishu radio reported on 1 February 1989, the a government reshuffle that resulted in Adan Abdullahi Nur being moved from the Ministry of Defence to become the Minister of Information and Tourism. [ BBC Summary of World Broadcasts, 1 February 1989.]

The President of Somalia announced further changes to his government (on 21 April 1989) with the appointment of Adan Abdullahi Nur (formerly the Minister of Information and Tourism) as the Minister in the President's Office responsible for Social Affairs. [BBC Summary of World Broadcasts, 24 April 1989.] However, on 24 July 1989 a statement issued by the President's Office reported that Adan Abdullahi Nur had "been relieved" of his post as Minister in the Office of the President. The reason disclosed in the official statement was that both Adan Abdullahi Nur and Muhammad Abdullah Bacadleh, also a Minister in the President's Office, had "been accused of acts which threatened the sovereignty, unity, security and cohesion of...the Somali people". In addition they had been relieved of their duties as members of the People's Assembly and Adan Abdullahi Nur had been sacked from the Party Central Committee and had his rank as a major-general in the armed forces taken away. [BBC Summary of World Broadcasts, 26 July 1989.]

The Africa Confidential, reports that Adan Abdullahi Nur, an Ogadeni, was arrested in July 1989. As a result, Ogadeni soldiers in Kismayo, who had mutinied in March 1989 in protest against the demotion of the Minister of Defence, had now formed the Somali Patriotic Movement under the leadership of Col. Bashir Ali Bililqo, Adan Gabiyow's son-in-law. The government has rejected Ogadeni demands, including the release of Adan Abdullahi Nur. [ "Somalia: The End In Sight For Siad", Africa Confidential, (London: Miramoor Publications Ltd., 8 September 1989), pp.4-5.]

Attached please find excerpts from the following documents:
"Somali Democratic Republic Unrest in the Army", African Research Bulletin, Nr. Crediton: Africa Research Ltd., 15 May 1989, pp.9256-9257.
"Somalia: The End in Sight for Said", Africa Confidential, London: Miramoor Publications Ltd., pp.5-6.