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Somalia offers $50,000 reward for information on journalist killers

Somalia has offered a $50,000 reward for information that would lead to the convictions of those killing journalists.

Somali people carry the body of journalist Abdisatar Dahir who was killed in a double suicide attack in a restaurant in Mogadishu. According to the International Press Institute, 16 journalists have been killed this year in Somalia, 119 total worldwide, the highest number since the 1990s.

Mohamed Abdiwahab

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