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Somalia - the Disappeared
[African Arguments] 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, a senior officer of Somalia's National Intelligence and Security Agency, disappeared on June 26, 2021, after leaving her home in Mogadishu, and her case remains unresolved.
What was announced
- Ikran Tahlil Farah was last seen leaving her home after receiving a call from an unknown number.
- Her disappearance is part of a larger pattern of enforced disappearances in Somalia, which has persisted for over fifty-five years.
- No investigation into her case has been publicly disclosed, and no one has been held accountable for her disappearance.
Context
The article highlights the ongoing issue of enforced disappearances in Somalia, particularly focusing on the case of Ikran Tahlil Farah.
“The disappeared person was written into Somali law as a category of person the state could create at will.”
Why this matters: This case exemplifies the broader issue of human rights abuses and the lack of accountability within Somalia's security agencies.
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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 supposed to protect.
Her disappearance has never been officially explained. No body has been found. No investigation has been publicly disclosed. No one has been held accountable. As of today, Ikran Tahlil Farah is a disappeared person -- one of thousands in Somalia's history, and one of the most recent.
Her case would be shocking in isolation. In the context of Somalia's fifty-five-year history of enforced disappearance, it is a continuation.
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