Ibraahin Hassan Addow (died December 3, 2009) (M.Ed, PHD) was a Somali

Somali people

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 scholar and politician

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Biography

Addow was the head of the Foreign Affairs

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 department for the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) of Somalia

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. He lived in the United States

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 and worked as an administrator at the American University

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 in Washington, D.C.

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, before returning to his native Somalia in 1999. There, he served as the Dean of Benadir University

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 in Mogadishu

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, and represented the ICU in its ongoing discussions in Khartoum

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 and Nairobi

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 with the Somali Transitional Federal Government

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On January 8, 2007 as the Battle of Ras Kamboni

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 raged, Prof. Addow, speaking from Yemen

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, said the Islamic Courts was ready to enter negotiations with the Transitional Federal Government

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. However, TFG President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed

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 categorically refused to hold peace talks at this stage.

Death

On December 3, 2009, Professor Addow was killed in an explosion

2009 Hotel Shamo bombing

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during a graduation ceremony at the Shamo Hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia.