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Somalia: At least two journalists killed and seven others wounded in Mogadishu suicide bombing

Mogadishu Thursday 03 December 2009 SMC   

Reporters Without Borders is stunned and saddened by today’s suicide bombing in a Mogadishu hotel that killed more than a dozen people including at least two journalists, three government ministers and nine students.
 
The explosion occurred during a ceremony at which Banadir University students were being awarded graduation diplomas. At least seven other journalists were wounded. The figures for dead and wounded are only provisional.
 
“We condemn this attack with the utmost firmness and we express our solidarity with the two news media whose journalists were among the fatalities,” Reporters Without Borders said. “One of these news media, Radio Shabelle, has already seen two of its directors killed in the past two years, while other Radio Shabelle journalists have been killed this year.”
 
The press freedom organisation added: “With violence at a peak in Somalia, journalists who try to cover the country’s chaotic political situation are living a nightmare. Those who masterminded this cowardly bombing are responsible for the deaths of these two journalists. The use of blind violence must stop and should be condemned by all parties to the conflict.”
 
Radio Shabelle reporter Mohamed Amin Adan Abdulle, 24, and Al-Arabia TV cameraman Hassan Zubeyr Haji Hassan were the two journalists killed in today’s bombing, which occurred at the Shamo Hotel in a district known as “Kilometre 5” on one of Mogadishu’s main avenues.
 
Three ministers in the transitional government were also killed while a fourth, the sports minister, who is a former journalist and founding member of the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ), was badly injured and was reported to be in a critical condition.
 
According to the information obtained by Reporters Without Borders, at least seven journalists were injured by the blast, including Agence France-Presse photographer Mohamed Dahir.
 
No group has so far claimed the bombed but the Islamist militia Al-Shabaab was widely suspected. A hotel employee said one of the students participating in the ceremony detonated an explosive vest that he was wearing.
 
“We cannot cope with this level of violence anymore,” a former Radio Shabelle journalist based in Mogadishu told Reporters Without Borders. “Most of my colleagues now want to stop working because it has become too dangerous.”
 
Radio Shabelle was one of the nominees in the Media category for the 2009 Reporters Without Borders - Fnac Press Freedom Prize, which was awarded yesterday in Paris. The capital’s most respected privately-owned radio, it is also the one that has been targeted most. Its director, Mukhtar Mohamed Hirabe, was fatally shot four times in the head in the centre of Mogadishu while on his way to work on 7 June (http://www.rsf.org/Le-directeur-de-Radio-Shabelle,33288.html). Two of his employees were killed earlier this year while his predecessor, Bashir Nur Gedi, was himself murdered in 2007.
 
Concerned by the growing violence to which journalists are exposed in Somalia, Reporters Without Borders awarded a grant of 2,000 dollars last July to send 20 bullet-proof vests to journalists there (http://www.rsf.org/Grant-to-help-protect-beleaguered.html).
 
With eight journalists killed so far in 2009, Somalia is the world’s second deadliest country for journalists, after the Philippines. It was ranked 164th out of 175 countries in the 2009 Reporters Without Borders press freedom index.

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SOMALIE

Au moins deux journalistes tués et plusieurs autres blessés dans un attentat-suicide

Reporters sans frontières exprime sa stupeur et son immense tristesse après qu'un attentat-suicide, le 3 décembre 2009, dans un hôtel de Mogadiscio, a causé la mort d'une dizaine de personnes, parmi lesquelles au moins deux journalistes, trois ministres du gouvernement de transition et neuf étudiants. L'attaque s'est produite lors d'une cérémonie de remise de diplômes aux étudiants de l'université Banadir. Au moins sept autres journalistes ont été blessés. Le bilan n'est pas définitif.

“Nous condamnons cette attaque avec la plus grande fermeté et nous exprimons toute notre solidarité aux deux médias touchés par la mort d'un des leurs, notamment l'équipe de Radio Shabelle qui a déjà perdu deux directeurs en deux ans et plusieurs de ses journalistes cette année. L'insécurité en Somalie a atteint des sommets et les journalistes qui tentent de couvrir la situation chaotique de ce pays vivent un cauchemar. Les commanditaires de ce lâche attentat portent la responsabilité de la mort de nos confrères. L'usage de ces violences aveugles doit cesser et être condamné par l'ensemble des parties au conflit”, a déclaré l'organisation.

Le 3 décembre, Mohamed Amin Adan Abdulle, âgé de 24 ans, reporter pour Radio Shabelle, et Hassan Zubeyr Haji Hassan, cameraman pour la chaîne Al-Arabia TV, ont été mortellement blessés dans l'attentat visant l'hôtel Shamo, sur l'une des principales avenues de Mogadiscio, au lieu dit "kilomètre 5". Trois ministres du gouvernement de transition ont également été tués. Un quatrième, le ministre des Sports, ancien journaliste et membre fondateur de l'Union nationale des journalistes somaliens (NUSOJ), est dans un état critique après avoir été blessé.

Selon les informations de Reporters sans frontières, au moins sept journalistes, parmi lesquels le photographe de l'AFP, Mohamed Dahir, ont également été blessés.

L'attaque n'a pas été revendiquée, mais de forts soupçons pèsent sur la milice islamiste Al-Shabaab. Selon un employé de l'hôtel, l'un des étudiants participant à la cérémonie a déclenché des explosifs qu'il portait sur lui.

"Nous n'en pouvons plus de l'insécurité. La plupart de mes confrères souhaitent désormais arrêter de travailler. C'est devenu trop dangereux", a déclaré à Reporters sans frontières un ancien journaliste de Radio Shabelle basé dans la capitale somalienne.

Radio Shabelle figurait parmi les nominés, dans la catégorie Médias, du Prix Reporters sans frontières – Fnac 2009 remis à Paris le 2 décembre 2009. Station privée la plus réputée du pays, elle est aussi la plus exposée. Le 7 juin dernier, son directeur, Mukhtar Mohamed Hirabe, a été abattu de quatre balles dans la tête, en plein cœur de Mogadiscio, alors qu'il se rendait au travail (http://www.rsf.org/Le-directeur-de-Radio-Shabelle,33296.html). Avant lui, deux de ses employés avaient été tués cette année. Quant à son prédécesseur, Bashir Nur Gedi, il avait lui aussi été assassiné, en 2007.

Préoccupée par le contexte d’insécurité croissante dans lequel sont contraints de travailler les professionnels des médias en Somalie, Reporters sans frontières avait octroyé, en juillet dernier, une aide de 2 000 dollars et fait parvenir vingt gilets pare-balles à des journalistes somaliens (http://www.rsf.org/Aide-aux-journalistes-somaliens.html).

Avec huit journalistes tués en 2009, la Somalie est le deuxième pays le plus meurtrier du monde pour les médias, après les Philippines. Le pays occupe la 164e place (sur 175 pays) du classement 2009 de la liberté de la presse établi par Reporters sans frontières. 

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Ambroise PIERRE
Bureau Afrique / Africa Desk
Reporters sans frontières / Reporters Without Borders
47, rue Vivienne
75002 Paris, France
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