Somalia - Another journalist gunned down a day after three killed in suicide bombing

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders calls on the Somali authorities, African Union and international community to quickly make every effort to end the wave of targeted killings and attacks that is decimating Somalia's journalists. An entire profession is in the process of being wiped out with nothing being done to protect it. Thirteen journalists have been killed since the start of the year – five of them in the past six days, which will go down as one of the darkest weeks in the history of freedom of (...)

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