Abdullahi Afrah

March 9, 1953 (age 55)

El Garas, Somalia

He was killed 1 July 2008 in a battle with the Ethiopian troops in Matabaan, Hiiraan, Somalia. After he got his master"s degree, Asparo moved to Toronto,, where he stayed for ten more years. Afrah moved to Toronto following the outbreak of the Somali Civil War in 1991, became a Canadian citizen and worked as a security guard with the Toronto Catholic District School Board, before operating a Somalia wire transfer service, and eventually co-owning a grocery store on Dundas Street West. In 1996, Asparo moved back to Somalia with his family. "I have been there, just like everybody else, working and trying to make a good life. I tried my best and when I finished my intention to stay there I just moved back to Somalia", Afrah said, during a telephone interview with National Post. Afrah"s support of the International Union of Railways (UIC, French: Union Internationale des Chemins de fer) led William Kaplan to brand him a "Taliban wannabe" in December 2006. After the International Union of Railways (UIC, French: Union Internationale des Chemins de fer) were defeated in the end of 2006, Afrah stayed behind in Mogadishu. In a telephone interview with Canadian journalist Michelle Shephard, Afrah said that "the only solution is that Ethiopia should get out of Somalia peacefully, or with force," and he vowed that "they will be out, either willingly or unwillingly." On 1 July 2008, on his way back from his birthplace (Ceelgaras), Asparo was killed by the Ethiopian troops during a violent fighting in central Somalia, in a place called Matabaan, in Hiiraan province.

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Afrah was born in Ceelgaras, Somalia.

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Afrah got his bachelor"s degree in Agricultural from Lafoole University in 1983, and his master"s degree in Crop science from in 1986. He also got a bachelor"s degree in the Islamic studies from the University of Science and Technology, Sana"a in 2005. He joined a variety of other universities but did not complete.

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He was killed 1 July 2008 in a battle with the Ethiopian troops in Matabaan, Hiiraan, Somalia. After he got his master"s degree, Asparo moved to Toronto,, where he stayed for ten more years. Afrah moved to Toronto following the outbreak of the Somali Civil War in 1991, became a Canadian citizen and worked as a security guard with the Toronto Catholic District School Board, before operating a Somalia wire transfer service, and eventually co-owning a grocery store on Dundas Street West.

In 1996, Asparo moved back to Somalia with his family.

"I have been there, just like everybody else, working and trying to make a good life. I tried my best and when I finished my intention to stay there I just moved back to Somalia", Afrah said, during a telephone interview with National Post.

Afrah"s support of the International Union of Railways (UIC, French: Union Internationale des Chemins de fer) led William Kaplan to brand him a "Taliban wannabe" in December 2006. After the International Union of Railways (UIC, French: Union Internationale des Chemins de fer) were defeated in the end of 2006, Afrah stayed behind in Mogadishu.

In a telephone interview with Canadian journalist Michelle Shephard, Afrah said that "the only solution is that Ethiopia should get out of Somalia peacefully, or with force," and he vowed that "they will be out, either willingly or unwillingly." On 1 July 2008, on his way back from his birthplace (Ceelgaras), Asparo was killed by the Ethiopian troops during a violent fighting in central Somalia, in a place called Matabaan, in Hiiraan province.

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