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Swedish-Somali journalist (1974–2024)

Amun Abdullahi
Amuun Cabdulaahi Koraaye
Born(1974-10-23)23 October 1974
Mogadishu, Somalia
Died19 October 2024(2024-10-19) (aged 49)
Lower Shabelle, Afgoye, Somalia
Cause of deathGunshot wound
CitizenshipSomali and Swedish
Occupations
Years active1991–2024
Employer(s)SR International and Sveriges Radio
Organization(s)Somali Youth Center, Rinkeby
Awards2010: Swedish Publicists' Association Freedom of Speech prize in memory of Anna Politkovskaya

Amun Abdullahi Mohammed (Somali: Amuun Cabdulaahi Maxamed Koraaye, Arabic: أمون عبدالله ; 23 October 1974 – 19 October 2024) was a Somali-Swedish journalist and founder of a girls' school in Mogadishu, Somalia. She was murdered by an unidentified group of masked men who were believed to be members of Al-Shabaab in the Shabelle region capital city of Afgooye.

Biography

Amun Abdullahi grew up in Somalia and came in the 1990s to Sweden as a refugee. In Sweden, she lived first in Umeå, then Stockholm's Rinkeby district, and finally Kista, before moving back to Mogadishu.

In Stockholm, she worked for SR International, and made several high-profile reports broadcast on Sveriges Radio. Among other things, she revealed in 2009 that a leader of a youth center in Rinkeby recruited young people to the Somali Islamist militia al-Shabab.

She had been both physically and intellectually attacked and repeatedly threatened due to her work. She claimed that Sweden is "more dangerous than Mogadishu" for a journalist who wants to tell the truth.

Death

On 19 October 2024, at the age of 49, Amun Abdullahi was assassinated by an unidentified masked group of men who were believed to be Al-Shabaab while staying at her farmhouse near Afgooye in the Lower Shabelle region. The perpetrators escaped after the killing.

Awards

References

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  9. "SR International's Amun Abdullahi Mohamed Awarded Publicist Club Prize". Sveriges Radio (in Swedish). 15 March 2010. Retrieved 1 October 2022.
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