Ahmed Farah Ilyas

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Somali gunmen attempt to kill a Universal TV journalist

Nairobi, October 22, 2013–Somali authorities must work quickly to identify the motive in today’s murder attempt on a broadcast reporter and bring the perpetrators to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The journalist, Mohamed Mohamud, has been hospitalized with serious injuries.

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TV journalist Ahmed Farah Ilyas was killed in Somaliland on Tuesday. (Somalilandpress)

In first for Somaliland, gunmen kill journalist

Nairobi, October 24, 2012–Unidentified gunmen killed a journalist in the Somaliland town of Las Anod on Tuesday, the first work-related fatality CPJ has documented in the semi-autonomous republic.

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