Female journalist killed by gunmen in MOGADISHU, Somalia

Mar 25, 2013 - 10:07
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Female journalist killed by gunmen in MOGADISHU, Somalia
Rahmo Abdulqadir Farah

A media colleague says that gunmen in Somalia have shot and killed a female Somali joualist.

Abdikarim Ahmed Bulhan, the director of Abudwak radio in central Somalia, said Monday that two men armed with pistols killed 25-year-old Rahmo Abdulqadir Farah in Mogadishu on Sunday evening. Her murder brings the number of joualists killed in Somalia this year to three.

Somalia is 1 of the world's most dangerous places for joualist to operate. Last year 18 media workers were killed, mostly in targeted murders.

Bulhan called it an \"outrageous killing\" of an aspiring joualist. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the killing.

The govement has promised to take action against those who kill joualists, but so far no arrests have yet been made for any of the joualist deaths in 2012.

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