A former Somalia diplamat was on Wednesday shot dead few meters outside Aden Adde International Airport in Mogadishu, it has now emerged.
Ms Almaas Elman, who previously worked in Somalia embassy in Nairobi, was driving around Harabe area in the vicinity of the busy airport when she met her death.
According to Jubaland Planning Minister Aw Hirsi, Elmaas had attended a meeting convened by European Union Resilience Programme hours before she died.
Police in the war torn nation are yet to establish the motive behind the latest assassination, targeting peace keepers in Somalia.
The death of the aid worker, Almaas Elman, was confirmed by Brig Gen Zakia Hussein, the deputy commissioner of the Somali Police Force, who said investigations into the killing were continuing.
Elman was the daughter of Elman Ali Ahmed, a pioneering peace activist who himself was gunned down in Mogadishu in 1996 according to New York Times.
Amnesty International said at the time that his murder “sent a chilling message to Somalis desirous of peace and normality — that no one is safe.”
“I am shocked to the core,” said Mohamed Dubo, a communication specialist in Mogadishu who said he first met Ms. Elman in 2015. Describing her as “a youthful soul that has changed many lives,” Mr. Dubo said it was “hard to internalize this death.”
Laetitia Bader, a senior researcher for the Africa division of Human Rights Watch, said Ms. Elman was “a committed, tireless advocate for the countless survivors of sexual violence in Somalia.”
Her death comes just hours after the meeting between Somalia's opposition FNP and President Mohamed Abdullahi. The opposition has been raising questions about extrajudicial killings.
The deceased was sister to IIwad Elman, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee. IIwad lost to Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed in October. They are also Canadian citizens.