https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/16452345/who-suspect-ali-harbi-alis-father-harbi-ali-kullane/
The Prime minister he was advisor to must be Hawadle Madar, who died in London in 2005. Madar was
...a former member of the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party (SRSP); he was in office in the period leading up to the outbreak of the Somali Civil War
The SRSP was created by the military regime of [president] Siad Barre under Soviet guidance
...the SRSP developed relations with foreign communist parties, such as the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED)
The SRSP was nominally a Marxist–Leninist communist party
Oh, and a family friend told The Sun that he was told Ali was studying medicine.