Welcome To Somalia Journalists killed in 1991 - 2008

Mohamed Jama Farah (ARAB) Radio Mogadishu Voice of republic and Somali National News Agency (SONNA).

 Dollow district Gedo region 1996

Mohamed Jama Farah (Arab)  well-known as Falax-Falax was born in Wardher (West Somalia in Ethiopia) in 1942,the period of Deeleey, he was a journalist of Radio Mogadishu, as he was a famous as a radio Journalist and writing of News, Programs, editorials and Features.

In middle of 1970, Falax-Falax a journalist examination of Radio Mogadishu and he succeeded it, till once after, he became head of Radio Mogadishu department of Somali ministry of Information.

Al-itihad fighters captured a journalist FALAH-FALAH during the wars of Doolow that was between Al-itihad and the rebel of Somali National Front (SNF) and they, Al-itihad had brutally killed him there in 1996 as he was out of the war with no weapons.

Ahmed Kafi Awale, Radio of the Somali People, January 26, 2000, Mogadishu

Ahmed Kafi Awale, a reporter for the private station Radio of the Somali People, owned by the South
Mogadishu warlord Hussein Mohamed Aidid, was killed by a stray bullet while on assignment at Bakara market in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.

Abdullahi Madkeer, DMC Radio, January 24, 2003, Baidoa

Madkeer, a journalist with DMC Radio, was accidentally shot in the stomach by members of the Rahanweyn Resistance Army (RRA) militia while covering the reopening of Baidoa Airport in the southwest of the country,  so that he was taken to a hospital and died that day after doctors refused to operate on him because he was HIV positive.

The shooting occurred while militia belonging to the RRA faction of Shaykh Adan Madobe fired on the airport crowd to drive them back from an aircraft with a cargo of the narcotic that.

Duniya Muhyadin Nur, Capital Voice and hornafric radios, June 5, 2005  Afgoye

Muhyadin was shot to death while covering a protest in Afgoye, about 18 miles (30 kilometers) from Mogadishu. Muhyadin, 26, was a reporter for the Mogadishu–based radio station Capital Voice, owned by the HornAfrik media company.

She was covering a blockade by commercial drivers on the Mogadishu-Afgoye road.,the drivers were protesting the proliferation of militia roadblocks.

While they were attempting to stop private traffic, a gunman fired into Muhyadin's taxi, Abdulahi-kulmiye Adow told SOJRA's Observer Unit., and the bullet passed through the front seat and hit Muhyadin, who died instantly.

Mohammed Abdullahi Khalif, Voice of Peace
May 5, 2007, Galkayo

Khalif, a contributor to the private radio station Voice of Peace in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, was killed by crossfire while covering an army raid on an illegal gun market.

Khalif died from a bullet to the chest as soldiers were raiding the dealership to recover an assault rifle allegedly stolen from the army, according to the Farah Abdi-kadirone of radio Galka’yo reporters . One other person died and several others were wounded in the raid.

Khalif 27, had contributed news reports to the station on a voluntary basis since 2006 and he had worked as a station technician for several months before said Farah.

Abshir Ali Gabre, Radio Jowhar
Ahmed Hassan Mahad, Radio Jowhar
May 16, 2007, Jowhar

News editor Gabre and reporter Mahad of Radio Jowhar, a private station in Jowhar, 55 miles (90 kilometers) north of the capital, Mogadishu, were gunned down when a provincial governor’s motorcade was ambushed by gunmen from a rival sub-clan.

Gabre and Mahad were riding in the first vehicle of the official convoy, a white pickup truck carrying officials and armed security guards, according to Station Director Saeed Ali Afrah. Gabre sustained gunshot wounds to his neck and left hand, while Mahad was shot in the head and chest, he added.

Gabre, 35 and the father of one, and Mahad, 24, had been reporting for Radio Jowhar since its inception in October 2002. He was survived by a wife and three children.

Mahad Ahmed Elmi, Capital Voice
Ali Sharmarke, HornAfrik
August 11, 2007, Mogadishu

Prominent journalists Sharmarke and Elmi were killed in Mogadishu in two separate attacks on the same day. Unknown gunmen shot Elmi, director of Capital Voice radio, a private station run by HornAfrik Media, four times in the head at close range as he neared the door of his office early that morning and he bled to death after being rushed to the hospital.

Elmi, 30, hosted a popular daily morning talk show in which Mogadishu residents phoned in reports about neighborhood issues such as crime and government security operations.

Sharmarke, founder and co-owner of HornAfrik Media, was killed just hours later after attending Elmi’s funeral. The black Land Cruiser in which he was riding was struck by a remotely detonated landmine none of the more than 20 other vehicles in the funeral procession were hit.

Sharmarke, 50, who had dual Canadian and Somali citizenship, was survived by two wives and two children as well as Mahad Ahmed  Elmi was survived by a two wives  and two children.

Abdulkadir Mahad Moallim Kaskey: Radio Banadir
August 24, 2007, Bardera

Kaskey, a correspondent for private Radio Banadir, was shot in the southwestern city of Bardera while returning from a journalism training workshop in Mogadishu.

Kaskey died of a single bullet to the chest when local gladle clan gunmen opened fired on a Toyota truck carrying 15 people, Yahye Abdirisak Sofe said. At least two passengers were wounded in the incident, which occurred just after midnight.

Kaskey, 21, was an active reporter respected by his colleagues, according to Radio Banadir Director Ahmed Nur Ali Dhagweyn (Ahmana). A day before his death, he had visited the offices of the press union in Mogadishu to discuss the working conditions of journalists in southwestern Somalia. He was also a correspondent for Radio Mandek in Beledhawo district Gedo region and Radio Daljir in the northeastern semi-autonomous region of Punt-land, according to Mandek radio Director Ahmed Timajilic

Bashiir Noor Gedi: Radio Shabelle
October 19, 2007, Mogadishu

Gedi, acting manager of the independent station Radio Shabelle, was assassinated outside his home in Mogadishu by unknown gunmen, Gedi was attempting to return to his home in the Hamar Jadid neighborhood after he and other Radio Shabelle employees had been holed up in the station for roughly a week because of a series of threats.

Hassan Kafi Hared, Somali National News Agency
January 28, 2008, Kismayo

Hared, 38, a reporter for the Somali National News Agency, was killed during a midday attack on a medical assistance vehicle in the southwestern port town of Kismayo..

A remotely detonated landmine destroyed a Medecins Sans Frontières-Holland vehicle, killing two aid workers and the driver. Guards with the aid organization opened fire in the area after the explosion.

Hared, who also worked for the news Web site Gedonet, was on his way to a press conference at the Kismayo police station when he was killed. The reporter was rushed to Kismayo General Hospital but died an hour later, at around 1 p.m. He was survived by a wife and three children.

Nasteh Dahir Farah, freelance Kismayo, June 7, 2008.

Nasteh Dahir, vice chairman of the National Union of Somali Journalists, and BBC-Somali Service reporter was shot by two men while walking home from an Internet cafe near his home in Kismayo at around 7 p.m.

Nasteh Dahir was rushed to the local hospital, but died due to blood loss 16 minutes later, therefore Nasteh is survived by his wife, Idil Abdi Ahmed "Farey", who is six months pregnant with the young couple’s second child. They have also have a son, who was 10 months old when Nasteh Dahir was killed.