[1] He served as Vice-president of the Representative Council of French Somaliland from April 1959 to June 1960, he was a member of the government of Ali Aref Bourhan in 1962–1964, he then participated in the foundation of the Afar Democratic Union (UDA).

In December, after the bombing of the Palm in Zinc, and the consequent ban on the Movement for the Liberation (MPL), he resigned and returned to the opposition.

Ahmed, a member of the Afar ethnic group, was born near Mount Mabla in the northern Djibouti.

[7][8] The radical faction held a congress in late September 1994 and elected Dini as head of its executive committee.

[8] Following the signing of a reconciliation agreement between his faction and the government in February 2000, Dini returned to Djibouti from Yemen on 29 March 2000, ending nine years of exile.