Kevin Sieff, Exclusive: U.S.-funded Somali intelligence agency has been using kids as spies, in Washington Post, Mogadishu, 7 maggio 2016. URL consultato il 22 novembre 2019.
«'We still have a long way to go, but the leadership displayed by the minister of internal security to remove the children from the facility and hand them over to us for care and rehabilitation is a step in the right direction,' said Ilwad Elman, the center’s director of programs and the daughter of its namesake, Elman Ali Ahmed, a Somali human rights activist who was assassinated in 1996.»