Almaas Elman (died 20 November 2019) was a

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humanitarian aid worker, the eldest daughter of a prominent family of humanitarian aid-workers. Her parents were

Elman Ali Ahmed Elman Ali Ahmed ( so, Cilmi Cali Axmed, ar, علم علي أحمد) was a Somali entrepreneur and social activist. Personal life Ahmed was based in Mogadishu Ahmed was married to Fartuun Adan, with whom he had four daughters. Due to having re ...

and

Fartuun Adan Fartuun Abdisalaan Adan ( so, Fartuun Aadan, ar, فارتون آدن) is a Somali social activist. She is the Executive Director of the Elman Peace and Human Rights Centre. Personal life Adan grew up in Somalia. She was married to Elman Ali A ...

. She, her mother and her sisters emigrated to Canada in the early 1990s. Her father was gunned down in 1996. Her mother helped found the

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. One of her sisters

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was a short-listed candidate for the 2019

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. Her husband, a Somali- Swedish tech entrepreneur, was Zakaria Hersi. They married in 2017. Elman had served in the

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Reserve prior to her return to Somalia. Elman had served as First Secretary, in the Somali embassy, in

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. Upon her return to Somalia Elman served as a liaison with diplomats from the

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, called news of her death "personally devastating". Elman's death was initially reported as a murder by many news sources, including ''

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''. Within a day of her death the

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, which controls the territory where the car carrying her was traveling, said they had no reports of opposition elements engaging in hostilities in the area, and describes her being hit by "a stray bullet", from outside. '' Hadalsame'' reported that Elman was expecting a child, when she was killed.

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