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March 05, 2012
Somali journalist Ali Ahmed Abdi was shot and killed Sunday evening (March 4th) in the northern Galkayo region as he headed home from his job at Radio Galkayo, colleagues and witnesses said.
At least three men armed with pistols stopped Abdi, 26, and shot him "brutally in the head several times", Nuh Muse Birjeb, Abdi's colleague, told AFP. "We don't know why innocent journalists are always targets."
Police arrived at the scene, but the attackers had already escaped, the news agency reported.
The Mogadishu Media House condemned the attack in a news release, calling the targeting of journalists "a slow genocide".
"It is very sad; this is the fourth journalist killed in four consecutive months in Somalia -- three in Mogadishu and one in Galkayo," said Abdulahi Mohamed Hassan, director of Mogadishu Media House.
The head of Shabelle Media Network was shot dead in January, and the head of the Somaliweyn radio station was killed in Mogadishu last week.
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