Sweden29 Augosto 2009 Shaaficiyah Media.

Abdi Yare Ahmed Jama a Somali journalist, who has been working for GBC TV and Radio in the Somali capital Mogadishu, has safely reached Sweden after he fled for his life.

“The life of the Somali journalist in Mogadishu is really horrible they are serving their people in a terrible situation, and I have decide to leave the country after the director of Shabelle radio Mukhtar Mohamed Hirabe was killed, and his colleague Ahmed Tajir was seriously wounded in the month of June this year, I have been working as a cameraman for GBC and I have been receiving daily threatening phone calls from unknown people saying that they will kill me, and when I ask them why do they want to kill me they told me that I have recorded them fighting, it is true that I have recorded them fighting, but that was if I am allowed to do so, but there is no specific person or group which I have recorded I was present in Mogadishu when valuable colleagues of mine such as Ali Iman Sharmarke, and Mahad Ahmed Elimi who were the backbones of the Somali journalists were killed on the 11th of August 2007, the current situation of the Somali journalists is more worse than even 2007, now the knife is on the throat of every Somali journalist in the Mogadishu, and is merely waiting to be slit” said Abdi Yare a Somali Journalist.

Abdi Yare was among the Somali Journalists who have stopped their work of Journalisim after the director of Shabelle radio Mukhtar Mohamed Hirabe was killed and his fellow workmate Ahmed Omar Hashi (Tajir) was seriously wounded in the month of June this year inside Bakara market.

In Sweden there are several Somali journalist who have fled from their own country, after they were tortured, arrested or threatened by people who have disguised their faces, and so far most of the veteran Somali journalists are not in the country.

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Mogadishu-somalia