Public life today
Barkhad Awale Adan (Barkhad Cawaale Aadan)
Barkhad Awale Adan was a Somali journalist from Borama who worked in Mogadishu radio for 30 years and directed Radio Hurma. On 24 August 2010 he was killed by a stray bullet during fighting in Mogadishu while helping repair his station's transmitter. Journalists' unions and UNESCO condemned the danger to the press.
Barkhad Awale AdanBurkhat Awale Adan · Barkhad Cawaale Aadan
- Lived
- ? to 2010-08-24
- Known as one of
- Public life today
- Era
- The Republic, 1960 to 1991; Rebuilding without a state, 1991 to 2012
- Sources
- 1 sources
Who was he?
Barkhad Awale Adan was a Somali journalist born in Borama (Wikipedia, Barkhad Awale Adan). He worked for 30 years in Mogadishu's radio industry, the last four as director of Radio Hurma (same source). Somaliland declared independence in 1991; Israel recognised it on 26 December 2025; most states and the AU regard it as part of Somalia.
Death
On 24 August 2010, during fighting between AMISOM and al-Shabaab after a suicide bombing at the Hotel Muna, he was helping a technician repair the station's roof transmitter when a stray bullet hit him (Wikipedia). He died at Madina hospital (same source). He was the second journalist killed in Somalia that year (same source).
The National Union of Somali Journalists, the International Federation of Journalists and UNESCO's director-general Irina Bokova all spoke out about the danger to Somali journalists (same source).
In short
A veteran Mogadishu radio director killed by a stray bullet on his station's roof in 2010.
Sources
- Wikipedia, Barkhad Awale Adan · en.wikipedia.org
Barkhad Awale AdanBurkhat Awale Adan · Barkhad Cawaale Aadan
- Lived
- ? to 2010-08-24
- Known as one of
- Public life today
- Era
- The Republic, 1960 to 1991; Rebuilding without a state, 1991 to 2012
- Sources
- 1 sources
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