Mogadishu, 28 September 2012 – The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia, Dr. Augustine P. Mahiga, is shocked and alarmed by the recent wave of journalist killings in Mogadishu over the last few days.

SRSG Mahiga strongly condemns the killing of Abdirahman Mohamed Ali, a sports journalist whose body reportedly was found yesterday evening beheaded at a former animal market in Mogadishu and of Ahmed Abdullahi Fanah, a reporter for Yemeni news agency SABA who was shot dead earlier today.