Mustafa Haji Abdinur (Mustafe Xaaji Cabdinuur)

Who is he?

Mustafa Haji Abdinur is a Somali journalist and radio correspondent (Wikipedia, 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). 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 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). 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). 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.