Somali Journalist Critically Hurt in Car Bombing

On Tuesday evening, veteran Somali journalist and media rights activist Ismail Sheikh Khalifa was critically wounded when a bomb planted in his car exploded in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. Ismail was leaving the TV studio where he hosts a weekly show, when the bomb detonated remotely. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. Expand Somali journalist and media rights activist Ismail Sheikh Khalifa. © Radio Dalsan Since August 2016, 10 journalists and media workers have been killed in Somalia, which tops the Committee to Protect Journalists Global Impunity Index on countries where…

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