Somalia Journalists Take Up Arms

Author:
AlJazeera English
Publisher:
AlJazeera English
Publication Date:
9 May 2013
Tags:
Somalia

Journalists in Somalia have started arming themselves in response to a wave of targeted killings. At least 22 media workers have been murdered over the past year and a half. Al Jazeera's Peter Greste went to the capital Mogadishu to meet one journalist who now goes to work with a gun.

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