He graduated from the Istanbul Military Academy and pursued a career in the Ottoman Army.

He returned to Albania and on March 28, 1921, he became Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of Pandeli Evangjeli.

Dibra was among the organizers of the uprising in March 1922, and on April 5 of the same year, he was sentenced to death in absentia.

He left Albania and in 1923 he was in Vienna with Hasan Prishtina and Irfan Ohri, as part of an anti-Zogist organization founded by Aqif Elbasani.

After Ahmet Zogu took power, Dibra fled to Yugoslavia, but was returned by the authorities.