Somalis across the world have expressed their shock and sorrow at the death of the country’s youngest Cabinet member.

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Abass Abdullahi Sheikh Siraji was killed when the security team of the country’s auditor general, Nur Farah, fired at the car he was travelling in.

Farah says that his guards thought the vehicle was transporting a suicide bomber.

Somali President Mohammed Abdullah Farmaajo has cut short a visit to Ethiopia to attend Siraji’s funeral.

Siraji, 31,  grew up in the Dadaab refugee camp in neighbouring Kenya.

He became Somalia’s youngest MP last November and Minister of Public Works and Reconstruction last February.

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The rights watchdog says more than 300 000 refugees who fled Somalia since the outbreak of civil war 25 years ago are being repatriated against their will.

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Kenya said in May it’s closing the world’s largest refugee camp at Dadaab and repatriating its residents  to their countries of origin.

Kenya, Somalia and the United Nations Refugee Agency signed a Tripartite Agreement in November 2013 governing the repatriation of Somali refugees. The Human Rights Watch report says the UN Refugee Agency isn’t providing refugees accurate information about conditions in Somalia, which is still subject to regular attacks by Al Shabaab.

Some Dadaab residents are leaving now to get a $400 cash grant the UN is paying  those currently being repatriated.

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