# Ahmed Mumin Warfa (Axmed Muumin Warfaa)

> Ahmed Mumin Warfa (d. 2021): Somali botanist who co-discovered Cyclamen somalense; rector of Zamzam University.

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## Who was he?

Ahmed Mumin Warfa was a Somali botanist ([Wikipedia, Ahmed Mumin Warfa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Mumin_Warfa)). With the Swedish botanist Mats Thulin he discovered the species *Cyclamen somalense* (same source). He taught biology and agriculture at the Somali National University and found several plants native only to Somalia, notably in Bari region (same source). See [Bari](/en/regions/bari/).

## Peace work

When the civil war began in 1991 and the university closed, he worked as a translator for the United Nations and helped set up reconciliation councils during talks in Addis Ababa ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Mumin_Warfa)). He survived an assassination attempt in 1994 (same source).

## Teaching in the United States

He moved via Nairobi to the United States, where he taught biology at Salt Lake Community College and Brigham Young University in Utah ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Mumin_Warfa)). He also raised funds for projects in Somalia such as [Hiiraan](/en/regions/hiiraan/) University (same source).

## Return to Mogadishu

In 2020 he returned to Mogadishu as rector of [Zamzam University of Science and Technology](/en/institutions/zamzam-university/) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Mumin_Warfa)). He died there of complications from COVID-19 on 15 March 2021 (same source).

## In short

A botanist and peace worker who co-discovered a Somali cyclamen and led a Mogadishu university in his last year.

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