Somalia: The Disappeared

On the evening of 26 June 2021, a woman named Ikran Tahlil Farah left her home in Mogadishu after receiving a call from a number she did not recognize. She got into a car. Her family watched her go. They have not seen her since. Ikran Tahlil Farah was not a dissident or a journalist. She was not an opposition politician or a civil society activist. She was a senior officer of Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency — NISA — serving as the head of its cyber security division. She was, by any definition, someone the Somali state was […] The post Somalia: The Disappeared appeared first on African Arguments.