Existing comment:
Yusuf Ahmed Abukar
Organization: Radio Ergo and Mustaqbal Radio
Year: 2014
Country: Somalia
Bio:
Radio journalist Yusuf Ahmed Abukar was driving to work when a bomb planted under the seat of his car exploded, killing him instantly. An outspoken critic of the Islamist terrorist group al-Shabab and the Somali government, Abukar, who was 27, had received anonymous death threats on his cellphone in the weeks before his murder. In 2013, he won the U.N.-sponsored Somali Media Award in recognition of his reporting on humanitarian issues. Somalia is Africa's deadliest country for journalists and has one of the world's worst records for prosecuting their killers, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. |