Mogadishu (Alshahid) – Eight Somali journalists were injured on Tuesday while covering a news conference organized by Al-Shabaab spokesman in a police school in Abdiasis district of northern Mogadishu, a base they had seized since Monday.
Four of the wounded journalists were identified as Ilyas Ahmed Abukar, Abdirisak Elmi Jama, Abdinasir Idle and Muse Mohamud Jisow. They were hit by mortars targeted at the function.
The journalists alleged that the attackers definitely knew that a press conference was taking place at the base and were against their covering of the press conference.
The few enduring and bold journalists illuminating the suffering of masses in Somalia are an endangered species. Insurgents and gunmen shot dead an illustrious media guru Sheikh Nur Abkey, who worked for the state-run Radio Mogadishu in May and he was the first reporter to be killed in Somalia this year.
The international press watchdog, Reporters Without Borders, says nine journalists were killed in Somalia in 2009, including three killed in December when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives at a university graduation in Mogadishu.
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