24 May 2012
Journalist shot dead in Somalia
Shooting
Unidentified gunmen shot and killed Ahmed Addow Anshur, a producer and reporter for the Mogadishu-based Radio Shabelle, media reported on Thursday
The deceaseds colleague Mohamed Bashir said that Anshur was shot dead by unidentified people adding that he too had received text message threats. He is the third Shabelle radio reporter killed in the same district this year. We are really in grief for losing him, Bashir said. The killing was condemned by the National Union of Somali Journalists, and by Augustine Mahiga, Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary-General for Somalia.
It is well known that Somali journalists have the most difficult working conditions in the world. But that does not make it any easier to accept when one is brutally killed, Mahiga said in a statement. This cycle of violence must stop. The union said that Anshurs killing brought the number of journalists killed in Somalia this year to six. The country is ranked the most dangerous in Africa for journalists by media rights group Reporters Without Borders.
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Source: The News Tribe
