Somalia - 2012 - deadliest year ever for Somali media

Reporters without borders

A suicide-bombing at a Mogadishu restaurant frequented by media personnel took the lives of at least three journalists today, bringing the number of journalists killed this year in Somalia to 12 and making 2012 "the deadliest year ever for the Somali media," Reporters Without Borders said. With nine fatalities, 2009 had until now held the Somali "record" for the most journalists killed in a single year. Many journalists were in The Village restaurant, located near Mogadishu's National (...)

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