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Ismail, Edna Adan

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Personal name headingIsmail, Edna Adan
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Variant(s)Adan Ismail, Edna
Associated placeHargeysa (Woqooyi Galbeed, Somalia)
Birth date1937-09-08
Field of activityMidwifery Politics
Found inWar destroys, peace nurtures, 2004: t.p. (Edna Adan Ismail) p. 4 of cover (president of the Somali Studies International Association, Somaliland Minister of Family and Social Affairs, and founder/director of the Edna Adan Maternity Hospital in Hargeisa)
A woman of firsts, 2019: t.p. (Edna Adan Ismail, midwife) p. facing t.p. (Foreign Minister of Somaliland from 2003-2006 and previously served as Somaliland's Minister of Family Welfare and Social Development; director and founder of the Edna Adan Materninty Hospital in Hargeisa, which opened in 2002; Pesident of the Somaliland Association for Victims of Torture; opened the Edna Adan Ismail University in Hargeisa in 2010; married to Mohamed Haji Ibrahim Egal who was Prime Minister of Somalia (1967-69) and President of Somaliland (1993-2002)) p. 9 (b. 8 September 1937 in Hargeisa, British Somaliland Protectorate)