Somalia’s Public Works Minister Abdullahi Sheikh Abas has been killed after an attack on his convoy in the capital, Mogadishu.
The 31-year old Abas was shot dead in his car near the presidential palace.
The deceased lawmaker was a former refugee who grew up in Dadaab camp in Kenya, home to hundreds of thousands of Somalis who fled drought and civil war.
He became the country’s youngest member of parliament last November, when he defeated a former minister.
