Mogadishu, Almaas Elman the sister of the renowned human rights activist Ilwad Elman was Wednesday afternoon shot dead in the Halane compound in Mogadishu.
The circumstances under which the Almaas was killed remained unclear, but sources said a bullet ripped through a vehicle she was. Sources said . Reports said Almaas Elman was pregnant at the time of the incident and was heading to the airport to board a flight to the Kenyan capital Nairobi. Almaas previously worked as first secretary at the Somali embassy in Kenya. She had been actively involved in the Elman Peace foundation founded by her father who was killed in 1996 in Mogadishu.
Together with her sister Ilwad Elman, who was this year tipped for a Nobel prize and their mother Fartun, they have been running the foundation which supports vulnerable women and former child soldiers in Somalia.