My father, Yusuf Dirir Abdi, a Somali politician, has died aged around 80, killed by Somali government troops. He was born into a nomadic family in Erigavo, probably in 1935, though there is no record of his birth. He was the oldest of eight children of Dirir Abdi Issa and Ambaro Sugaal, a strong woman … Continue reading My father, Yusuf Dirir Abdi, a Somali politician, was killed by Somali government troops. – By Deporah Keeping More