Ismail Abukar, Author at African Arguments

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Ismail Abukar

Ismail Abukar is a Somali human rights advocate, researcher, and senior policy advisor based in Mogadishu, Somalia. He is co-founder and Chairperson of the Organization for Prisoners' Rights (OPR), an independent nonprofit civil society organization focused on prisoners' rights, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, and prison reform in Somalia. He also chairs the Somali Rights Organization (SRO) and has served as Somali Youth Representative to the African Union (2019–2021). OPR's research has been cited by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the US State Department. He writes from Mogadishu. opr.org.so

Debating Ideas Politics Somalia

By Ismail Abukar
August 6, 2026
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Somalia: The Journalists Who Disappeared

In October 2022, Abdalle Ahmed Mumin — Secretary-General of the Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS), the organisation that documents what happens to journalists in Somalia — arrived ...

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Debating Ideas Politics Society Somalia

By Ismail Abukar
June 24, 2026
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Somalia: The Disappeared

On the evening of 26 June 2021, a woman named Ikran Tahlil Farah left her home in Mogadishu after receiving a call from a number she ...

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Somalia: The Journalists Who Disappeared

Somalia: The Disappeared