Ali Ahmed Abdi

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Attacks on the Press | Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Mali, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Tajikistan, Tunisia

Attacks on the Press: Journalism and Religion

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

(AFP/Brian Rasmussen)

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February 14, 2013 12:04 AM ET | | Also in Русский, العربية
Tags: Ahmad Salkida, Al-Shabaab, Ali Ahmed Abdi, Attacked, Boko Haram, Censored, Charlie Hebdo, Gao, Hamza Kashgari, Hizb-ut-Tahrir, Internet, Irshad Manji, Jyllands-Posten, Killed, Kurt Westergaard, Malick Aliou Maïga, Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, Prophet Muhammad, Puntland, Radio Adar Khoïma, Radio Galkayo, Ruptures, Social Media, Stefica Galic, Tahar Djaout, The Innocence of Muslims, Threatened, Twitter, Urinboy Usmonov, Ye Muslimoch Guday, Yusuf Getachew
Alerts | Somalia

In deadly Mogadishu blast, 10 journalists wounded

Medical personnel help a man wounded in the explosion in Mogadishu today. (AP/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

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 said.

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April 4, 2012 5:29 PM ET |
Tags: Abdiwelli Mohamed, Abdulkadir Mohamed Hassan, Abukar Hassan Mohamoud, Ahmed Ali Kahiye, Al-Shabaab, Ali Ahmed Abdi, Attacked, Ayaan Abdullahi, Deeqa Mohamed, Hamdi Mohamed Hassan, Mikail Hassan Ali, Mohamed Noor Mohamed Sharif, Moyhadin Hassan, Mulki Hassan Haile, Radio Bar-kulan, Radio Kulmiye, Radio Mogadishu, S24 TV, Said Shire Warsame, Shabelle TV, Somali Channel TV, Somali National Television, Suleiman Sheikh Ismail
Alerts | Somalia

Somali journalist killed in Puntland

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

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.

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March 5, 2012 5:09 PM ET |
Tags: Al-Shabaab, Ali Ahmed Abdi, Killed, Puntland, Puntlandi, Radio Galkayo

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