Amina Mohamed Abdi

Amina Mohamed Abdi (Somali: Aamina Maxamed Cabdi; 21 October 1981 – 23 March 2022) was a Somali politician, she was an MP in the Federal Parliament of Somalia from 2012 till her death, as a member of the opposition Union for Peace and Development Party.

She attended school in Mogadishu, and remembered, aged eight, returning from school to find her house empty and her family gone as the Somali Civil War fighting broke out in 1992.

She defied clan elders to do so, facing down objections that in doing so she was behaving like a prostitute.

[2] Abdi was preparing to be a candidate in the parliamentary elections scheduled for February 2021,[3] defending her seat against five men.

[5] On 23 March 2022, an al-Shabaab suicide bomber targeted a vehicle carrying Amina and her bodyguards in Beledweyne, as she was campaigning for re-election.