On 12 November 2010, Abdishakur Sheikh Hassan Farah was appointed Somalia's Minister for Internal Affairs and Security by
Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, the nation's new
Prime Minister. Part of a leaner, technocratic administration, the Cabinet was widely lauded as a welcome break from previous governments. On 10 June 2011, he died at
Banadir Hospital in
Mogadishu from injuries sustained after a
suicide bomber had evaded security and entered his home in
Mogadishu. The bomber was his teenage niece Haboon Abdulkadir Hersi Qaaf, who had been recruited by the Islamist insurgent group
Al-Shabaab. The office of Prime Minister Mohamed subsequently issued a press release declaring 11 June a
national day of mourning in memory of Abdishakur Sheikh Hassan Farah. ==References==