Young, female and fighting corruption in Somalia
ABDI SHEIKH MINA Mohamed Abdi was just 24 when she first stood for Somalia's parliament in 2012, defeating two other candidates to win a seat reserved for women and defying elders from her Hawiye clan, some of whom denounced her as immodest. "I was asked 'you want to be a prostitute? How can a woman represent a clan?'" she told Reuters. "I insisted and said a clan is not composed only of men." Four years later, she won an open seat in Hiran, a region north of the capital Mogadishu. Now 32, and having carved herself a reputation as one…