Preliminary investigations show Somali-Canadian activist was killed by a stray bullet: African Union

This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.The statement by the African Union mission said Almaas Elman was hit while travelling in a car Wednesday inside a heavily defended base near the international airport where many diplomats and aid workers have offices in the Horn of Africa nation in the Horn of Africa nation.

The former diplomat was the latest member of Somalia’s diaspora to be killed after returning home to help rebuild the country after decades of conflict, including a Somali-Canadian journalist who died in a bomb blast in July. Elman’s family founded a prominent peace centre in Somalia and her sister Ilwad was reportedly shortlisted for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.In a statement Thursday, Ilwad Elman said her sister would be laid to rest at a mosque in Mogadishu during Friday prayers.

The sisters fled Somalia with their mother, Fartuun Adan, in the early 1990s as the country’s warlord-led chaos deepened after the fall of President Siad Barre. Their father, Elman Ali Ahmed, stayed behind to run the Elman Peace centre until he was murdered in 1996. Even years after the extremists were chased out of the capital by the AU force, al-Shabab still carries out bombings against hotels and other high-profile targets in the seaside city. A devastating truck bombing in Mogadishu in 2017 killed well over 500 people.

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