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Somalia: Director of HornAfrik radio murdered in Mogadishu
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Date Written:  05/02/09
Year Published:  2009  
Resource Type:  Article/Report/Letter

The director of Somalia's HornAfrik radio, Said Tahlil, has been shot dead in the capital’s market district of Bakara. His murder comes 16 months after the radio’s former director, Ali Imam Sharmake, was killed by a booby trap car bomb.

Abstract:  Reporters Without Borders voiced outrage at the murder today of the director of HornAfrik radio, Said Tahlil, just 16 months after the radio’s former director, Ali Imam Sharmake, was killed by a booby trap car bomb.

With 11 journalists killed there since 2007, Somalia is Africa’s deadliest country for the profession.

Tahlil was shot dead in the capital’s market district of Bakara as he and other radio directors were on their way to a meeting called by representatives of the al-Shabab...
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