Ali Ahmed Abdi Archives - Committee to Protect Journalists

Two gunmen shot Abdirisak Ali Abdi at a restaurant on Tuesday. The Radio Daljir journalist died at a hospital. (HCTV)

Somali journalist in Puntland killed by gunmen

November 19, 2014 3:14 PM EST

Nairobi, November 19, 2014–The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland to do their utmost to arrest and prosecute the killers of a Somali journalist and identify the motive behind the murder.

Attacks on the Press: Journalism and Religion

February 14, 2013 12:04 AM EST

Editors think twice, reporters do not dig deeply, columnists choose words carefully. By Jean-Paul Marthoz

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…

Somali journalist Ali Ahmed Abdi was shot and killed in Puntland on Sunday. (Radio Daljir)

Somali journalist killed in Puntland

March 5, 2012 5:09 PM EST

New York, March 5, 2012–The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the murder of a former Somali journalist who was shot on Sunday in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland. The victim, Ali Ahmed Abdi, had recently resigned as a manager for a news outlet that has come under attack by Al-Shabaab insurgents.