{"id":25867,"date":"2016-06-06T03:07:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T03:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/gunmen-kill-female-journalist-in-somalia-s\/"},"modified":"2016-06-06T03:07:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T03:07:40","slug":"gunmen-kill-female-journalist-in-somalia-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/gunmen-kill-female-journalist-in-somalia-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen kill female journalist in Somalia&#8217;s Mogadishu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Gunmen suspected of belonging to Somalia&#8217;s Islamist al Shabaab group shot and killed a female journalist working for state-run radio on Sunday, police said.}<\/p>\n<p>Major Nur Ali, a police officer, said Sagal Salad worked for Radio Mogadishu.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Three men armed with pistols killed (her)&#8230; We heard gunfire and we rushed to the scene, the gunmen had already escaped,&#8221; Ali told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was rushed to hospital but she died on the way. They killed her near a college campus where she studied. We believe al Shabaab is behind her killing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Al Shabaab was not immediately reachable for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Late last year, a female reporter who also worked for Radio Mogadishu was killed in a car blast. Two men convicted of the killing were executed in April.<\/p>\n<p>Also in April, a government firing squad executed a former media officer working for al Shabaab for ordering the death of six journalists.<\/p>\n<p>The al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab was forced out of Mogadishu by African Union peacekeeping troops in 2011 but has remained potent, launching frequent attacks in its bid to overthrow Somalia&#8217;s government.<\/p>\n<p>Somalia was plunged into anarchy in the early 1990s following the toppling of military dictator Mohamed Siad Barre, and has been struggling to reconstruct.<\/p>\n<p>Somalia ranked 172nd out of 180 countries in the 2015 Reporters Without Borders press freedom index.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-12634 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/somalia-journalist-murdered.jpg\" alt=\"\u00a9 Mohamed Abdiwahad, AFP | Sunday&#039;s deadly shooting follows the murder of Somali journalist Hindiyo Haji Mohamed in Mogadishu on December 3, 2015.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Gunmen suspected of belonging to Somalia&#8217;s Islamist al Shabaab group shot and killed a female journalist working for state-run radio on Sunday, police said.} Major Nur Ali, a police officer, said Sagal Salad worked for Radio Mogadishu. &#8220;Three men armed with pistols killed (her)&#8230; We heard gunfire and we rushed to the scene, the gunmen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[2482],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-25867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-reuters"],"bylines":[{"id":2482,"name":"REUTERS","slug":"reuters","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2482,"name":"REUTERS","slug":"reuters","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25867"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=25867"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=25867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}