Public life today
Abdalle Mumin (Cabdalle Muumin)
Abdalle Ahmed Mumin is a Somali journalist and press freedom campaigner. He is Secretary General of the Somali Journalists Syndicate, writes for The Guardian, and contributed to the book Hounded: African Journalists in Exile. He survived an attack in 2015 and was detained in Mogadishu in October 2022 before being released on bail.
Abdalle MuminAbdalle Ahmed Mumin · Cabdalle Axmed Muumin
- Known as one of
- Public life today
- Places
- Muqdisho and Banaadir
- Era
- Rebuilding without a state, 1991 to 2012; Who holds power, 2012 to now
- Sources
- 1 sources
Who is he?
Abdalle Ahmed Mumin is a Somali journalist and human rights activist (Wikipedia, Abdalle Mumin). He is Secretary General of the Somali Journalists Syndicate and writes for The Guardian (same source). He contributed to the book Hounded: African Journalists in Exile (same source).
Attack and detention
In early 2015 he survived an attack after reporting for The Wall Street Journal on the killing of al-Shabaab's leader (Wikipedia).
On 11 October 2022 he was arrested while waiting for a flight to Nairobi and held at the Godka Jilacow detention centre (Wikipedia). Wikipedia links the arrest to the authorities' campaign against armed groups, and he was released on bail on 22 October after ten days in custody (same source).
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In short
A Somali journalist who leads the journalists' syndicate and has been attacked and detained over his work.
Sources
- Wikipedia, Abdalle Mumin · en.wikipedia.org
Abdalle MuminAbdalle Ahmed Mumin · Cabdalle Axmed Muumin
- Known as one of
- Public life today
- Places
- Muqdisho and Banaadir
- Era
- Rebuilding without a state, 1991 to 2012; Who holds power, 2012 to now
- Sources
- 1 sources
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