Abdullahi Ali Afrah (March 9, 1953 – July 1, 2008), born in Somalia, was a Canadian immigrant who returned to Mogadishu as a leader in the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC).

[citation needed] After he got his master's degree, Asparo moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where he stayed for ten more years.

Afrah moved to Toronto following the outbreak of the Somali Civil War in 1991, became a Canadian citizen[3] and worked as a security guard with the Toronto Catholic District School Board, before operating a Somalia wire transfer service, and eventually co-owning a grocery store on Dundas Street West.

[5] He took his wife and children back to Mogadishu in 1997,[3] where he held a senior position in the consultative council of the Union of Islamic Courts.

"[3] On 1 July 2008, on his way back from his birthplace (Ceelgaras), Asparo was killed by the Ethiopian troops during a violent fighting in central Somalia, in a place called Matabaan, in Hiiraan province.