Saleban Olad Roble

{{short description|Somali politician}}

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| office = Minister of Sport

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| term_end = February 10, 2010 (his death)

| president = Sharif Sheikh Ahmed

| primeminister = Omar Sharmarke

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1963|02|23}}{{cite web|url=https://www.arabnews.com/node/336972|title=Somali minister dies in Riyadh hospital|last=Rasooldeen|first=Mohammed|date=2010-02-14|publisher=Arab News|access-date=2023-11-15}}

| birth_place = Somalia

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2010|02|12|1963|02|23}}

| death_place = King Fahd Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

| death_cause = Suicide bombing (victim)

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Saleban Olad Roble (February 23, 1963 - February 12, 2010){{cite news |title=Somali minister dies of wounds after suicide bomb |url=http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE61C02G.htm |date=13 February 2010 | work=AlertNet |accessdate=13 February 2010}} was a Somali politician and a minister in the Transitional Federal Government.

He was critically wounded in a suicide bombing at the Hotel Shamo in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, on 3 December 2009. Minister of Health Qamar Aden Ali, Minister of Education Ahmed Abdulahi Waayeel and Minister of Higher Education Ibrahim Hassan Addow were killed in the blast. At the time, Roble was serving as Minister of Sport.{{cite news |title=Somalia al-Shabab Islamists deny causing deadly bomb |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8394528.stm |date=4 December 2009 | work=BBC News |accessdate=4 December 2009}} Roble died on February 12, 2010, at a hospital in the Saudi capital Riyadh, after he and other victims of the blast had been flown there for treatment.