Somali journalist stabbed to death in Mogadishu




Somali Journalist Said Yusuf Ali, a journalist who worked for a media outlet, was killed in Mogadishu tonight. The killing of journalist Said Yusuf Ali in the district of hodan is to have been caused by a man with a knife. Reports indicate that security forces have arrested the man who killed the journalist, Said Yusuf Ali was thirty years old,

He left two children and his wife Said on Monday.

According to Reporters without Borders Somalia continues to be one of the most dangerous countries in Africa for media personnel, with three more journalists killed in 2019, bringing the total killed in the past ten years to 50. Political violence and corruption undermine the freedom to inform in Somalia.