Aden Bare Duale (Somali: Aadan Barre Ducaale) is a Kenyan politician who served as the Cabinet Secretary for Defence in the cabinet of President William Ruto, having assumed the position on 31 October 2022. He was dismissed on 11 July 2024 and then reinstated on 19 July 2024 in a different capacity as Cabinet Secretary Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Forestry before being moved to Ministry of Health. He hails from the Ogaden - AbudWaaq branch of the greater Darod clan. A former Member of the National Assembly for Garissa Township Constituency, Duale served as the Majority Leader of the National Assembly under the Jubilee Party in the 11th Parliament from 2013 to 2017 and in the 12th Parliament from 2017 to 2020, when he was ousted for perceived disloyalty to former President Uhuru Kenyatta, the Jubilee Party leader. He was first elected in 2007 under the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), but left the party in 2009, teaming up with Ruto to form the United Republican Party.

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