Somalia: Urgent Appeal to International Community After Media Owner Murdered

press release

Reporters Without Borders issued an urgent appeal today to the international community for energetic measures towards the Somali government on behalf of the country's journalists after yesterday's murder in Mogadishu of Bashir Nur Gedi, the head of the Shabelle press group. Gedi is the eighth journalist to be slain this year in Somalia and the third leading media owner to be killed by unidentified gunmen in the capital.

"The security situation in Mogadishu seems to be completely out of control," Reporters Without Borders said. "Abandoned by the Somali authorities and their international partners, journalists have become key targets who are easily accessible. One after another, the country's leading media owners are being eliminated. By taking no action in this climate of total impunity, those who could be in a position to stop these murders will end up becoming accomplices."

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