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Somalia: Al-Shabaab Kill Journalist Abdiaziz Guled Who Criticised Them on Radio
Nation, 21 November 2021
Somali militant group al-Shabaab on Saturday evening claimed responsibility for killing a veteran journalist who campaigned against the activities of the proscribed group, in the… Read more »
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Somalia: Why Was Abdiaziz Afrika Targeted By Suicide Bomber?
DW, 21 November 2021
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Somalia: Car Bomb Kills Popular Broadcast Journalist
VOA, 20 November 2021
A Somali journalist with state-run media was killed Saturday in Mogadishu when a suicide bomber blew up his car, government officials and his colleagues said. Another journalist… Read more »
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Somalia: Al-Shabaab Sentences 3 People in Lower Shabelle Region
Dalsan Radio, 31 October 2021
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Somalia: Journalist Jamal Farah Adan Shot and Killed, Al-Shabaab Claims Responsibility
CPJ, 4 March 2021
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Al-Shabaab Kill Somali Journalist Who Criticised Them on Radio
Militant group al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for killing a veteran journalist who campaigned against the activities of the proscribed group, in the latest attack on media freedom.
Abdiaziz Guled aka Afrika, the Director of state-owned Radio Mogadishu was killed in a targeted suicide bombing as he rode in a car with a colleague identified as Sharmarke Mohamed Warsame, the Director of Somali National TV, also a government media outlet.
Police said that a man wearing a suicide vest approached the vehicle in a busy street in Mogadishu as they left a restaurant and detonated it, killing Afrika instantly and wounding his colleague who is still fighting for his life at Mogadishu's Madina Hospital.
This is the second death of a journalist in 2021, directly linked to Al-Shabaab. In March, the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) said another reporter Jamal Farah Adan, a freelance Journalist whose radio programmes were also critical of Al-Shabaab and its operations was shot dead in Galmudug State, reports Aggrey Mutambo for The Nation.
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Radio Mogadishu director and journalist, Abdiaziz Mohamud Guled (popularly known as Abdiaziz Africa) killed by a suicide bomber in Mogadishu, on Saturday November 20, 2021.
