# Amun Abdullahi (Amuun Cabdullaahi)

> Amun Abdullahi (1974–2024): Somali-Swedish radio journalist, founder of a girls' school in Mogadishu, killed near Afgooye.

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## Who was she?

Amun Abdullahi Mohammed was a Somali-Swedish journalist and the founder of a girls' school in Mogadishu ([Wikipedia, Amun Abdullahi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amun_Abdullahi)). This page records events without taking sides.

## Life in Sweden

She grew up in Somalia and came to Sweden as a refugee in the 1990s ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amun_Abdullahi)). She lived in Umeå, then in Rinkeby and Kista in Stockholm (same source). She worked for SR International and made reports for Sveriges Radio (same source). See [Somalis in Sweden](/en/diaspora/sweden/).

In 2009 she reported that a leader of a youth centre in Rinkeby was recruiting young people for al-Shabaab ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amun_Abdullahi)). She was attacked and threatened repeatedly because of her work (same source). She said Sweden was "more dangerous than Mogadishu" for a journalist who wants to tell the truth (same source). In 2010 she received the Swedish Publicists' Association's freedom of speech prize in memory of Anna Politkovskaya (same source).

## Return and death

She later moved back to Mogadishu and founded a girls' school ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amun_Abdullahi)). On 19 October 2024, aged 49, she was killed by masked men at her farmhouse near [Afgooye](/en/regions/lower-shabelle/), in [Lower Shabelle](/en/infrastructure/k50-airstrip/) (same source). Wikipedia says the attackers were believed to be members of al-Shabaab, and that they escaped (same source).

## In short

A Somali-Swedish radio journalist who reported on al-Shabaab recruitment in Stockholm and was killed near Afgooye in 2024.

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