WOJA extends condolence to the family, friends, and Somali media workers for the killing of Mukhtar Mohamed Hirabe, Director of Shabelle Radio and TV in Mogadishu, Somalia.

Press Release fro Women Journalists Inaction (WOJA)

Ref: 00134
Date: 07/06/ 09

Subject: Condemn
Women Journalist in Action (WOJA) extends condolence to the family, friends, and Somali media workers for the killing of Mukhtar Mohamed Hirabe, Director of Shabelle Radio and TV in Mogadishu, Somalia.

Somalia is the worst of the worst environments for broadcasters. Today Sunday morning (June 7) Shabelle Radio and TV director Mukhtar Mohamed Hirabe was gunned down by “unknown” assailants, according to local reports.

Program Director Ahmed Tajir was also shot and was taken to hospital in critical condition.

Two Radio Shabelle reporters were killed this year in separate incidents. Hirabe survived a February assassination attempt in the same Bakaro market district of Mogadishu that claimed the life of Radio HornAfrik director Said Tahlil Ahmed.

We have been appealing to political groups to end the killing of media people, but no group listened.
Now is the time for the international community to take urgent actions instead of issuing statements expressing its distress and condemnation.

The condemnation signed by
The coordinator of Women Journalist in Action WOJA
Sahra Mohamud Koronto (Keef)