Sunday, October 26, 2008
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A Somali woman working for a human rights organization was shot and killed on Saturday in the latest series of attacks on local civilians, aid workers and officials.Dunia Sheikh Daoud was killed on Saturday evening as she returned from work at the IIDA organization in the central Somali town Guriel, her employer told news outlets.
At least 15 aid workers have been killed this year in the war-torn country, most of them Somalis.
IIDA is a women’s development organization, which, among other things, campaigns to abolish the practice of female genital mutilation.
It is unknown who was behind the attack.
Somalia has not had a stable government since 1991 and its security forces are currently pitted in an ongoing battle against Islamists who wish to retake control over the capital Mogadishu and other parts of the country.
Meanwhile, in Sudan, the media is concerned about the recent detention of a Darfuri journalist arrested for translating the comments of a displaced Darfuri woman into Arabic for a visiting Qatari official.
The journalist, 35-year-old Nour A-Din Braima, was detained two weeks ago and has since been held incommunicado, the publisher of the daily Ajras Al-Huriyya said.
The publisher sees the arrest of his journalist as part of a broader crackdown on media in Sudan to prevent news of the Darfur crisis from getting out.
More than 200,000 people have been killed and at least 1.2 million displaced since the conflict broke out in the western Sudanese province in early 2003.
Braima was reportedly a member of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), a rebel movement turned political party based in southern Sudan, with which the paper is affiliated.
The government said he was arrested for causing a commotion during an official visit, the Sudan Tribune reported.
Sudan has around 30 daily independent newspapers spanning the political sphere. Journalists have been the regular target of security services, which do not allow the media to get in the way of government action, according to Reporters Without Borders.
Source: Medialine, Oct 26, 2008