Nasteh Dahir

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Nasteh Dahir Farah (born 1972 or 1973, died June 7, 2008) was a Somali reporter, and vice-president of the National Union of Somali Journalists.^[1] He was murdered in Kismayo, Somalia, on June 7, 2008.^[2]

Dahir, described as a "leading Somali journalist"^[3], was a local correspondant in Somalia for the British Broadcasting Corporation and the Associated Press news agency. He received death threats before being murdered. He was shot by gunmen and died in a hospital in Kismayo.^[4] Reporters Without Borders stated that the killers had not been identified ^[5], but the BBC and Al Jazeera reported that the killing had been attributed to Islamist insurgents.^{[6] [7]}

[edit] See also

• Abdul Samad Rohani, a BBC journalist murdered on the same day or the following day in Afghanistan

[edit] References

1. ^ "Somalie: le correspondant de la BBC à Kismayo tué par balles", AFP, June 7, 2008
2. ^ "Un reporter de la BBC tué par des hommes armés au Sud de la Somalie", Agence de Presse Africaine, June 8, 2008
3. ^ "Leading Somali journalist slain", CNN, June 7, 2008
4. ^ "Somalie: le correspondant de la BBC à Kismayo tué par balles", AFP, June 7, 2008
5. ^ "Reporters sans frontières bouleversée par l’assassinat du vice-président de son organisation partenaire en Somalie", Reporters Without Borders, June 7, 2008
6. ^ "Somali BBC contributor shot dead", BBC, June 7, 2008
7. ^ "Somali journalist shot dead", Al Jazeera, June 7, 2008