# Mustafa Haji Abdinur (Mustafe Xaaji Cabdinuur)

> Mustafa Haji Abdinur: AFP's Somalia correspondent, CPJ Press Freedom Award winner (2009).

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## Who is he?

Mustafa Haji Abdinur is a Somali journalist and radio correspondent ([Wikipedia, Mustafa Haji Abdinur](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Haji_Abdinur)). He was born into a working-class family in Baidoa, finished high school in Mogadishu, and returned to Baidoa in 1995 to study English (same source).

## Radio Baidoa to Radio Shabelle

He taught English in Baidoa and joined Radio Baidoa, translating world news and then producing programmes on farming, livestock and humanitarian crises ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Haji_Abdinur)). In 2001 clashes in Baidoa closed the station and he moved to Mogadishu (same source). He joined the STN television and radio network in 2002 and Radio [Shabelle](/en/economy/farming-and-harvests/) in 2004 as producer and news editor (same source). In 2006 he led a team covering the drought in the south and south-west, and edited Shabelle's English page (same source).

## AFP and Radio Simba

From 2006 he reported for Agence France-Presse, later becoming its Somalia correspondent ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Haji_Abdinur)). In 2007 he and a partner started Radio Simba, which Wikipedia says has over 2 million listeners in southern and central Somalia (same source).

## Awards

He received the CPJ International Press Freedom Award in 2009 and the CNN MultiChoice African Journalist of the Year award (free press category) in 2010 ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Haji_Abdinur)). On 17 June 2013 he was one of five journalists invited to address the UN Security Council (same source).

## In short

A Baidoa-born reporter who covered Somalia for AFP through the war years and spoke at the UN Security Council.

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