Tom Rhodes/CPJ Africa Program Coordinator

Tom Rhodes is CPJ's East Africa representative, based in Nairobi. Rhodes is a founder of southern Sudan’s first independent newspaper. Follow him on Twitter: @africamedia_CPJ

Features & Analysis
Gesey, left, and Jimale in their Nairobi apartment. (CPJ/Tom Rhodes)

Exiled Somali journalists face new challenges in Nairobi

Somali journalists Hassan Ali Gesey and Abdihakim Jimale are roommates these days, living in a tiny, graffiti-ridden room in Nairobi, Kenya. Neither would have wanted to eke out an existence like this, but dire circumstances brought them together—starting with the night three years ago that Gesey saved Jimale’s life.

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