# Amina Mohamed Abdi (Aamina Maxamed Cabdi)

> Amina Mohamed Abdi (1981–2022): Somali MP for Hiiraan from 2012, anti-corruption voice, killed in the Beledweyne bombing of 23 March 2022.

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## Who was she?

Amina Mohamed Abdi was a member of Somalia's Federal Parliament from 2012 until her death in 2022, as a member of the opposition Union for Peace and Development party ([Wikipedia, Amina Mohamed Abdi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amina_Mohamed_Abdi); [VOA Learning English, 23 January 2021](https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/young-female-somali-lawmaker-fights-corruption-/5743821.html)). VOA described her as a young lawmaker fighting corruption (same source).

## Early life

She went to school in Mogadishu. Reuters reported that, as an eight-year-old, she came home from school to find her house empty and her family gone as fighting broke out; she later lived with an uncle who was himself an MP ([Reuters, 18 January 2021](https://www.reuters.com/article/instant-article/idUSKBN29N0UG)). Wikipedia gives her clan as Hawiye, Gaaljecel ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amina_Mohamed_Abdi)).

## In parliament

In 2012 she stood for a seat reserved for women and won it against two other candidates ([Reuters, 18 January 2021](https://www.reuters.com/article/instant-article/idUSKBN29N0UG)). In the [2016 election](/en/history/somali-parliamentary-election-2016/) she won an open seat for [Hiiraan](/en/regions/hiiraan/) (same source). Her name is in the parliament's 2017 member list ([Members of the 10th Federal Parliament](/en/institutions/members-of-parliament-2016/)).

In early 2021 she was preparing to defend her seat against five men ([Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/article/instant-article/idUSKBN29N0UG)), but the vote was delayed by disputes over how it would run ([Al Jazeera, 10 February 2021](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/10/what-is-delaying-somalias-election)). She called for an investigation into the disappearance of intelligence officer Ikran Tahlil Farah ([The Guardian, 24 March 2022](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/mar/24/female-opposition-mp-among-dozens-killed-in-somalia-bombings)).

## Death

On 23 March 2022 an [al-Shabaab](/en/history/al-shabaab/) suicide bomber attacked the vehicle carrying her and her guards in Beledweyne while she was campaigning for re-election. A second car bomb went off as the wounded were brought to hospital ([The Guardian, 24 March 2022](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/mar/24/female-opposition-mp-among-dozens-killed-in-somalia-bombings)). She was killed, aged 40. The regional leader said 48 people died in the twin bombings ([Reuters, "Death toll from twin Somalia bombings rises to 48"](https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/death-toll-somalia-attack-that-killed-lawmaker-rises-15-state-tv-2022-03-24/)). See [The Beledweyne and Mogadishu attacks of 2022](/en/history/beledweyne-mogadishu-attacks-2022/).

## In short

A Hiiraan MP from 2012 to 2022 who spoke against corruption and was killed in the Beledweyne bombing while campaigning.

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