Abukar Hassan Mohamoud Archives - Committee to Protect Journalists

Medical personnel help a man wounded in the explosion in Mogadishu today. (AP/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

In deadly Mogadishu blast, 10 journalists wounded

April 4, 2012 5:29 PM EDT

New York, April 4, 2012–At least 10 journalists were reported injured, several of them seriously, when a bomb ripped through Somalia’s newly reopened national theater in Mogadishu, local journalists told CPJ. The blast, for which the militant insurgent group Al-Shabaab took responsibility, killed several people, including two of the nation’s top sports officials, news reports…

Gunmen murder veteran radio journalist in Mogadishu

February 28, 2012 5:15 PM EST

New York, February 28, 2012–Unidentified gunmen today assassinated a veteran journalist who had been trying to relaunch a radio station that extremist group Al-Shabaab had shut down and looted in 2010, local journalists said.