Qamar Aden Ali

Qamar Aden Ali قمر عدن علي
Minister of Health of Somalia
In office 2007 – December 3, 2009
Preceded by	Abdi Aziz Sheikh Yusuf
Succeeded by	Aadan Xaaji Ibraahim Daaud
Personal details
Born	19 September 1957 (1957-09-19) Benadir, Somalia
Died	3 December 2009 (2009-12-04) (aged 52) Mogadishu, Benadir, Somalia
Resting place	Mogadishu, Benadir, Somalia
Nationality	Somalian British
Children	2 children
Education	Political science Law
Occupation	Politician Lawyer
Religion	Sunni Islam
Ethnicity	[Somali people

Qamar Aden Ali (Somali: Qamar Aadan Cali, Arabic: قمر عدن علي‎‎) (b. 19 September 1957 - d. 3 December 2009) was a Somali lawyer and politician. She served as the Minister of Health in the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia.

Biography

Qamar was born on 19 September 1957 in a small village outside of Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. She was the third of 11 children. She spent her childhood in Mogadishu, where she also went to school and graduated from college. Qamar subsequently moved abroad to East Germany to study political science, and later studied law in England. She eventually graduated as a lawyer and became a British citizen. In the mid-1990s, Qamar returned to her native Somalia, where she later joined the nation's Transitional Federal Government. From 2007 until her death, she served as the national Minister of Health.

Assassination

On 3 December 2009, Qamar, along with Minister of Education Ahmed Abdulahi Waayeel and Minister of Higher Education Ibrahim Hassan Addow, was killed in a suicide bombing at the Hotel Shamo in Mogadishu.