Filsan Abdi Net Worth

Background and career

Filsan Abdullahi Ahmed (Somali: Filsan Cabdullaahi Axmed; Amharic: ፊልሳን አብዱላሂ አህመድ; born 1992), also called Filsan Abdi, is an Ethiopian activist and politician from the Somali Region. She is a founder of the Nabad project, a satellite television station for promoting communication and peace in Somali Region and between the Somali and Oromo communities.

Filsan was appointed as the Minister of Women, Children and Youth on 12 March 2020, becoming the youngest person in the Abiy Ahmed cabinet and the first Somali Ethiopian to be appointed to a federal government position. She resigned from the cabinet in September 2021. In December 2021, she stated to The Washington Post that she had resigned in relation to Abiy's handling of the Tigray War.