From October 2018 to July 2019, she was seconded as Chief of Staff to the office of the Mayor of Mogadishu, Abdirahman Yarisow, who was assassinated in August 2019.

[8] Garowe online have said that they obtained the CCTV footage of her 'being thrown into a jeep' with a fake NISA registration plate on the night of her disappearance.

[1] On 4 September 2021, Prime Minister Mohammed Hussein Roble asked Director General of NISA, Fahad Yasin to submit a report on Ikran's death.

[11] In a joint statement on 7 September 2021, IGAD, EU, USA, AMISOM and the UN, called for a credible investigation to be made into Ikran's disappearance.

[16] It is believed that Ikran was in possession of sensitive information relating to the suicide attack which killed her former boss, Abdirahman Osman,[2] and also a secret program in which an estimated 4000-7000 Somali military recruits were sent to train in Eritrea before allegedly being sent to fight in the Tigray War in Ethiopia.