# Abdulcadir Gabeire Farah (Cabdulqaadir Gabeyre Faarax)

> Abdulcadir Gabeire Farah (1955-2015): Somali-Polish activist, president of the Foundation for Somalia, killed in Mogadishu.

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## Who was he?

Abdulcadir Gabeire Farah was a Somali-born Polish historian and social activist ([Wikipedia, Abdulcadir Gabeire Farah](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulcadir_Gabeire_Farah)). He graduated from Omdurman University in [Sudan](/en/diaspora/sudan/) and spoke Arabic, English, Polish, Somali and Swahili (same source). He also lectured at a college in Yemen (same source).

## Life in Poland

He moved to Poland in the 1990s and was the first African to receive refugee status there after 1989 ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulcadir_Gabeire_Farah)). He learned Polish and became active in community life (same source). In 2007 he co-founded the Foundation for Somalia with Jolanta Opalińska, and became its president in 2010 (same source). The foundation raised money for a hospital in [Adado](/en/states/galmudug/) and a children's home, and ran language and job courses for migrants of every origin in Poland (same source). He became a Polish citizen in 2014 (same source).

## Death

In May 2015 he announced he would stand for President of Somalia in 2016, and returned to Mogadishu to prepare ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulcadir_Gabeire_Farah)). On 21 September 2015 he was killed in a car bomb attack near the presidential palace that killed at least eleven people; al-Shabaab was blamed (same source).

## In short

A Somali refugee who became a leading migrant advocate in Poland and was killed while preparing a presidential bid.

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