ABDI Aden was a happy-go-lucky, soccer-playing 15-year-old when Somalia’s civil war hit Mogadishu and his world fell apart. Effectively an orphan, he fled to Kenya facing violence, the death squad and starvation. Upon arriving at a refugee camp he knew that it would lead to death.

Apr 6, 2025 · And “Abdi, what do you feel when refugees are treated like criminals?” I try to explain that refugees have been with us for thousands of years. Even in primitive times, tribes were forced to make journeys when drought and natural …

Abdi Aden Corporate, Inspirational Speaker, Speaking Out. Abdi’s world fell apart when he was only fifteen and Somalia’s vicious civil war hit Mogadishu. Unable to find his family and effectively an orphan, he fled with some sixty others, and joined another 300 heading to Kenya.

May 25, 2015 · ‘Shining: The Story of a Lucky Man’ is the biography of Abdi Aden, written with Robert Hillman. Abdi Aden’s story begins like any other – he’s a happy kid from a loving family, living in soccer-mad Somalia. Then in 1991 civil war breaks out in …

Jan 24, 2025 · Fardowsa Abdi Aden rushed past the automatic doors at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and wrapped her sister, Amina Aden, in a hug. The joyous family reunion caused a minor traffic jam near the international arrival doors.

Abdi’s world fell apart when he was only fifteen and Somalia’s vicious civil war hit Mogadishu. Unable to find his family and effectively an orphan, he fled with some sixty others, and joined another 300 heading to Kenya.

Jan 12, 2023 · Mohamoud Abdi Aden is the second Kenyan-Somali the U.S. State Department has placed a $10 million bounty on in the last week. Shabaab now has five leaders with $10 million bounties, the most for any Sunni jihadist group.

Abdi Aden was 13 years old when Somalia’s civil war first broke in Mogadishu. He remembers playing soccer one afternoon and hearing an explosion that reverberated across the field. Abdi said the sound was a prophetic indicator of what was to come for his country – a place he described as once being beautiful.

Abdi Aden is a Somali refugee who escaped the civil war and eventually arrived in Australia speaking no English. He is now a university-educated Australian citizen working with the refugee community in Melbourne.

ABDI ADEN – a work in progress. I was forced to flee my home in Mogadishu due to Somalia's shattering civil war. Separated from my family, I spent the next years doing what I could do to survive in Romania before arriving in Melbourne alone. At this time I was just a young boy of around 16yrs old. I had no