Rahmo Abdulqadir Farah, a 25-year-old journalist was killed in Mogadishu, Somalia on Sunday evening. According to Abdikarim Ahmed Bulhan, the director of Abudwak Radio, two men armed with pistols killed her.
Abdulqadir was heading home after leaving an Internet café with a fellow journalist, Munira Ibrahim, around 9:30 p.m., when the attack occurred.
"Two men armed with pistols approached us and started shooting Ms. Abdulkadir," Ibrahim, who witnessed the attack, told ABC News. "Within seconds, I saw her falling on the ground with a lot of blood coming from her head. They shot her in the head three times and the neck two times. There were no police and I had to escape from the scene."
Bulhan told the Guardian, "She was an active and young female journalist with the aspiration to be a role model. Her main focus was human rights in Somalia, particularly women's rights."
No group has taken responsibility for the murder, which Bulhan called an "outrageous killing." Abdulqadir moved to Mogadishu in January of last year. She was intending to attend university there.
Abdulqadir was the third journalist to be killed in Somalia this year. Somalia is a dangerous country to work as a journalist. Eighteen members of the media were killed last year, most of them targeted murders.
The National Union of Somali Journalists has demanded the task force timeline be sped up.
"We condemn this unacceptable killing," Mohamed Ibrahim, the secretary-general of the union, told the Guardian. "We want to call on the government to open investigations into all the journalists assassinated in Somalia."
The government of Somalia had vowed to take action against those who murder journalists, but there have yet to be any arrests for murders committed in 2012.
The UN secretary-general's special representative for Somalia also spoke about the attack.
"I condemn this hideous attack in the strongest terms and send my deepest condolences to the family and friends of Rahma Abdulkadir," he told the Guardian.
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