Public life today
Hindia Haji Mohamed
Hindia Haji Mohamed (about 1988 to 3 December 2015) was a Somali radio and television journalist for Radio Mogadishu and Somali National Television. She was killed by a car bomb in Mogadishu in 2015, three years after her husband, journalist Liban Ali Nur, was killed in a bombing.
Hindia Haji MohamedHindiyo Haji Mohamed
- Lived
- 1988 to 2015-12-03
- Known as one of
- Public life today
- Places
- Muqdisho and Banaadir
- Era
- Who holds power, 2012 to now
- Sources
- 1 sources
Who was she?
Hindia Haji Mohamed was a Somali broadcast journalist for Radio Mogadishu and a producer for Somali National Television (Wikipedia). She was a mother of five and was studying international relations and diplomacy at Somali International University (same source).
Her husband
Her husband, Liban Ali Nur, was also a journalist; he was killed in 2012 in a suicide bombing at a restaurant in Mogadishu (Wikipedia). Wikipedia notes that they were among the few married couples worldwide both killed as journalists (same source).
Death
On 3 December 2015, aged 27, she was killed when a bomb planted under her car seat went off outside the Turkish Embassy in Mogadishu as she drove home from university (Wikipedia). Al-Shabaab claimed the attack; two men were later executed by firing squad and four others received prison terms (same source). She was the 38th journalist killed in Somalia since 2010, and UNESCO's Director-General Irina Bokova condemned the killing (same source). See Media in Somalia.
In short
A young radio and TV journalist killed in 2015, three years after her journalist husband.
Sources
- Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
Hindia Haji MohamedHindiyo Haji Mohamed
- Lived
- 1988 to 2015-12-03
- Known as one of
- Public life today
- Places
- Muqdisho and Banaadir
- Era
- Who holds power, 2012 to now
- Sources
- 1 sources
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