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This photo was taken just before missiles landed on a press conference in Mogadishu on June 29. (Badri Media)

View from a Somali photojournalist’s blood-stained lens

On Tuesday, several journalists were wounded when missiles were fired on a press conference in the battlefield of Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. When the National Union of Somali Journalists broke news of the attack, I immediately checked in with local reporters. I obtained the phone number of photojournalist Ilyas Ahmed Abukar, expecting to speak to a frantic or traumatized man, but to…

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