Somalis abroad in public life
Amun Abdullahi (Amuun Cabdullaahi)
Amun Abdullahi Mohammed (1974–2024) was a Somali-Swedish journalist who worked for Sveriges Radio and founded a girls' school in Mogadishu. In 2009 she reported that a youth centre leader in Stockholm's Rinkeby district was recruiting young people for al-Shabaab. She won a Swedish freedom of speech prize in 2010. She was killed near Afgooye on 19 October 2024.
Amun AbdullahiAmuun Cabdullaahi · Amun Abdullahi Mohammed
- Lived
- 1974-10-23 to 2024-10-19
- Known as one of
- Somalis abroad in public life
- Era
- The Republic, 1960 to 1991; Rebuilding without a state, 1991 to 2012; Who holds power, 2012 to now
- Sources
- 1 sources
Who was she?
Amun Abdullahi Mohammed was a Somali-Swedish journalist and the founder of a girls' school in Mogadishu (Wikipedia, 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). 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.
In 2009 she reported that a leader of a youth centre in Rinkeby was recruiting young people for al-Shabaab (Wikipedia). 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). On 19 October 2024, aged 49, she was killed by masked men at her farmhouse near Afgooye, in Lower Shabelle (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.
Sources
- Wikipedia, Amun Abdullahi · en.wikipedia.org
Amun AbdullahiAmuun Cabdullaahi · Amun Abdullahi Mohammed
- Lived
- 1974-10-23 to 2024-10-19
- Known as one of
- Somalis abroad in public life
- Era
- The Republic, 1960 to 1991; Rebuilding without a state, 1991 to 2012; Who holds power, 2012 to now
- Sources
- 1 sources
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