CPJ calls for probe into killing of Radio Muqdisho journalist

GOOBJOOG NEWS|NAIROBI: The Committee to Protect Journalists  (CPJ) has called for investigations into the killing of Radio Muqdisho journalist Abdiaziz Guled Afrika amid claims the bombing of the journalist may have involved more actors besides Al-Shabaab which claimed responsibility.

CPJ said the circumstances surrounding the killing of Afrika raised suspicions noting the matter must be fully investigation.

A thorough and transparent investigation into the attack that killed Abdiaziz Mohamud Guled and injured Sharmarke Mohamed Warsame and Abdukadir Abdullahi Nur is critical for authorities to signal that they are serious about reversing the impunity that prevails in journalists’ killings in Somalia,” CPJ Africa programme coordinator Angela Quintal said.

Forme National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) director-general Ahmed Fiqi alluded to a ‘joint venture’ between Al-Shabaab and other actors in the planning and killing of Afrika.

Afrika died after the vehicle he was in with SNTV colleague Sharmarke Mohamed Warsame and driver Abdukadir Abdullahi Nur blew up in Bondheere district in Mogadishu. A suicide bomber reportedly jumped into the vehicle and exploded killing the journalist.

Afrika had been producing Gungaar programme on SNTV which featured ex-Al-Shabaab and ISIS militants.