# Nasteh Dahir Farah (Nastax Daahir Faarax)

> Nasteh Dahir (1972-2008): BBC and AP correspondent killed in Kismayo, 2008.

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## Who was he?

Nasteh Dahir Farah was a Somali reporter and vice-president of the National Union of Somali Journalists, born in 1972 or 1973 ([Wikipedia, Nasteh Dahir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasteh_Dahir)). He was a local correspondent in Somalia for the BBC and the Associated Press (same source).

## Killing

He received death threats and on 7 June 2008 was shot by gunmen in Kismayo, dying in hospital there ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasteh_Dahir)). Reporters Without Borders said the killers had not been identified; the BBC and Al Jazeera reported that the killing had been attributed to Islamist insurgents (same source). See [Kismayo and Lower Juba](/en/regions/lower-juba/).

## In short

A BBC and AP reporter and journalists' union leader, killed in Kismayo in 2008.

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