Oct. 20, 2007 - The acting head of an independent radio station has been shot dead in the latest attack on a journalist in the Somali capital.
The killing of Bashir Nur Gedi brings to eight the number of journalists murdered this year in the Horn of Africa country, where reporters routinely face harassment, imprisonment and mortal danger. Gedi's colleague said he was gunned down while he was sitting in front of his house.
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