‘May God have mercy on her’: Somali-Canadian aid worker shot dead in Mogadishu compound

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Almaas Elman was the daughter of Elman Ali Ahmed, a pioneering peace activist who was gunned down in Mogadishu in 1996

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A Somali-Canadian aid worker and activist was shot dead Wednesday in Mogadishu, Somalia, a police official said, dealing a new blow to efforts by the Somali diaspora to return home and help rebuild the country after decades of war.

Said Fadhaye, a freelance videographer in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, posted on Facebook that he was in the car with Elman when she died. Describing the events as an “attack,” Fadhaye said Elman had “died on my lap,” adding, “May God have mercy on her.” Elman comes from a prominent family of activists whose work has focused on social justice, women’s rights and rehabilitating children affected by Somalia’s decades-long war.

The family fled to Canada after the outbreak of the Somali civil war in the early 1990s but returned beginning in 2010 to help nation-building efforts. Ifrah-Sucdi Hassan, a community activist in Ottawa said Elman had “always supported my community work.” Reached by phone Wednesday, Hassan recalled how Elman had been one of the first people to donate for an annual youth conference she was organizing a few years ago.

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The world as lost a beautiful soul....I hope she find peace....

Sad....pretty lady....why in this world ..why?..

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