Karen Phillips/CPJ Journalist Assistance Consultant

Karen Phillips is interim research associate in CPJ's Americas program. A former associate in CPJ's Journalists Assistance program, she is the author of the CPJ special report, "A Somali Journalist in Exile."

Features & Analysis
Somali editor Ahmed Omar Hashi has survived three attempts on his life. With CPJ's help, he is now living in Uganda. (CPJ/Karen Phillips)

Somali editor, family make a new life in exile

KAMPALA, Uganda As Ahmed Omar Hashi strode toward me, his figure silhouetted in the bright morning light, it was hard to believe this was the same man who left Mogadishu on a stretcher just six months earlier after suffering a near-fatal gunshot wound. As I reached to shake his hand, he pulled me into a…

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