News Safety Institute

Credits: All from AP - from left: Martin Mejia (Lima 2000), David de la Paz (Mexico City 1999), Jose Luis Magana (Mexico City 1998), Nasser Nasser (Ramallah 2002), Srdjan Ilic (Kosovo 1998) & Nasser Nasser (Ramallah 2000).

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Index

Journalists & Media Staff Casualties
Somalia

Total number of Journalists and Media Staff Killed
1993 - 2007

1993
Jean-Claude Jumel
French sound technician, killed by a sniper bullet
Anthony Macharia
Kenyan sound man, Reuters, beaten, stoned, stabbed by mob
Ali Ibrahim Mursal
AP, shot while trying to stop an armed robbery
Dan Eldon
American, Reuters, beaten, stoned, stabbed by mob
Hansjoerg Krauss
German, AP, beaten, stoned, stabbed by mob
Hosea Maina
Kenyan, Reuters, beaten, stoned, stabbed by mob
No name
5 Somalis working as journalists for CNN; car was attacked and they were killed during heavy fighting

1994
Ilaria Alpi
Italian, executed while reporting on Italian military contingent departure, TV RAI 3
Miran Hrovatin
Slovene, idem, was with Alpi, TV RAI
Pierre Anceaux
"Caritas News", Swiss, shot by Somali soldiers

1995
Marcello Palmisano
Italian, RAI, shot, filming withdrawal of UN troops

2000
Ahmed Kafi Awale
Somali journalist, reporting from a market when a shoot-out between local criminals and police broke out

2001
Adan Hussein
Somali journalist with Radio Benadir, killed by armed men in front of a teashop

2003
Abdullahi Madkeer
Somali journalist working for DMC. Shot in the stomach by the "Resistance Army" during shooting. Died at the hospital

2005
Kate Peyton -
British journalist, BBC, died after being shot while making a series of reports in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
Duniya Muhiyadin Nur
Somali journalist killed when gunmen opened fire at the vehicle in which she was traveling near the Somali capital Mogadishu.

2006
Martin Adler
Swedish journalist shot and killed in the Somali capital while attending a mass demonstration organized by the Islamic courts union that seized the city this month after fierce battles.

2007
Ali Mohammed Omar
Ali Mohammed Omar, presenter at Radio Warsan, one the region's most independent stations in Baidoa, was shot in the head on his way home.
Mohammed Abdullahi Khalif
Journalist for Galkayo based Radio Voice for Peace was killed by crossfire while covering an army raid on an illegal gun market in the city of Galkayo.
Abshir Ali Gabra
Ahmed Hassan
Abshir Ali Gabra, a journalist working for IQK FM station based in the capital Mogadishu and Ahmed Hassan with SBC Radio in Bosaso (A commercial city in the semiautonomous province in north Somalia) were killed in an ambush on a convoy carrying a Somali government delegation.
Mahad Ahmed Elmi
Mahad Ahmed was killed by unknown men with pistols while walking on Ifka Halan Road in Gubta Village on his way to the Radio station. Capital voice is owned by HornAfrik Media Incorporation. The assailants shot Mahad several times at the head. He was rushed to Madina hospital where he died.
Ali Iman Sharmarke
Managing Director of HornAfrik Radio, Ali Iman Sharmarke, was killed after a vehicle that he was riding was blown up by a remote-controlled mine laid by unknown assailants. His vehicle was part of a convoy that came back from the burial of journalist Mahad Ahmed Elmi, who was killed that morning in Mogadishu. Ali's vehicle was in the middle of the convoy and the mine did not blow up with the vehicles that were ahead of the Ali's vehicle.
Abdulkadir Mahad Moallim Kaskey
Abdulkadir Mahad Moallim Kaskey, the regional correspondent of Radio Banadir in the south-western province of Gedo, died after unknown gunmen opened fire on the minibus that he was riding in this morning in the village of El Ilan. Another passenger was wounded in the attack.

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