Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Here is a timeline of previous attacks on journalists:
Oct. 19, 2007 - Acting chairman of Radio Shabelle, Bashir Nur Gedi, is shot dead by unknown men in his house in Mogadishu.
Dec. 16 - Gunmen seize French journalist Gwen Le Gouil of television company Cargocult Production. He was freed on Dec. 24.
Jan 10, 2008 - Four gunmen shoot Abdikheyr Mohammed Jama in the face as he leaves community radio station in Puntland.
May 4 - Gunmen open fire on Bisharo Mohammed Waeys, a talk show presenter on privately-owned Eastern Television Network in Puntland, as she drove home. She was unhurt.
June 7 - Suspected Islamist insurgents shoot dead Nasteh Dahir, a local journalist working for the BBC, in southern Somalia, witnesses said.
Aug. 23 - Amanda Lindhout, a Canadian freelance reporter, and Nigel Brennan, a freelance Australian photojournalist are kidnapped in Mogadishu. Somali journalist, Abdifatah Mohammed Elmi, who was working as their interpreter, is also kidnapped. Elmi is released in January 2009. Lindhout and Brennan are freed in Nov. 2009.
Nov. 26 - Briton Colin Freeman, a correspondent for the Sunday Telegraph, and Spanish freelance photographer Jose Cendon are kidnapped in the northern province of Puntland. They are freed in January 2009 without a ransom being paid.
Jan. 1, 2009 - Radio Shabelle reporter Hassan Mayow Hassan is shot dead by a member of a pro-government militia in Afgooye, 30 km south of Mogadishu.
Feb. 4 - Said Tahlil Ahmed, the head of private media house HornAfrik, is killed in Mogadishu's Bakara market. Feb. 7 - Radio Abudwaq director Hassan Bulhan Ali is stabbed and wounded while attending a "reconciliation meeting" between two rival clans in Abudwaq, in the central Somali region of Galgadud. April 20 - Nur Muse Hussein, of Radio Voice of Holy Quran, is shot while covering clashes in Beledweyn, north of the capital. He died of his injuries on May 26.
June 7 - Mukhtar Mohamed Hirabe, director of Radio Shabelle is shot dead in Bakara market in the capital, Mogadishu. Another journalist accompanying him, Ahmed Omar Hashi, is also shot and wounded.
July 4 - Mohamud Mohamed Yusuf, a reporter with the private news station Radio Holy Quran, is shot and killed in northern Mogadishu.
Dec. 3 - An explosion at a Mogadishu hotel at a medical graduation ceremony, caused by a suicide bomber kills at least 22 people including three journalists. Radio Shabelle reporter Mohamed Amin Adan Abdulle, Al-Arabyia TV cameraman Hassan Zubeyr Haji Hassan and cameraman Abdigafar Abdulkadir Hassan all died in the blast.
May 4, 2010 - Sheikh Nur Abkey, who worked for the state-run Radio Mogadishu, is shot and killed in Mogadishu's Wardhigley neighbourhood while he was on his way home. Gunmen from the Islamist al Shabaab group claimed responsibility.
Sources: Reuters/ Reporters Without Borders/ National Union of Somali Journalists.