UNESCO Director-General condemns murder of Somalian journalist Mohamed Ibrahim Rageh

“I condemn the murder of Mohamed Ibrahim Rageh,” declared the Director-General. “His name is a sad addition to the all too long list of reporters and media professionals killed in the line of duty in Somalia.”

According to the NGO Reporters Without Border, Mohamed Ibrahim Rageh, a journalist, presenter and producer for public broadcasters Radio Mogadishu and Somali National TV was killed by two armed men outside his house in Ma’ma’anka, in Mogadishu.

Mohamed Ibrahim Rageh had recently returned to Somalia after several years in exile in Kenya and Uganda. A former member of the National Union of Somali Journalists and presenter at Radio Shabelle, he resigned from both in 2009 after receiving death threats from members of the Al-Shabaab militia.

Mohamed Ibrahim Rageh is the third Somali journalist whose death has been condemned by UNESCO so far this year. The list of killed journalists is to be found on the dedicated page, UNESCO Condemns the Killing of Journalists.

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