Updated 22.45 | Published 22.27
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full screen Amun Abdullahi worked for many years for Sveriges Radio. Archive image. Photo: Christine Olsson/TT
The Swedish-Somali journalist Amun Abdullahi has been killed in Somalia, reports Sveriges Radio.
According to information to Ekot, Abdullahi was allegedly shot dead by masked men in the town of Afgooye, northwest of the capital Mogadishu. There is no known motive for the shooting, but the area has been attacked on several occasions by the terrorist group al-Shabaab.
Amun Abdullahi came to Sweden as a refugee in 1992 and worked for many years in Sweden’s Radio’s Somali editorial office. There she did several attention-grabbing reports, including about how al-Shabaab recruited young people at a leisure farm in the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby.
She also got involved in public education work in Rinkeby, where she lived for several years.
She was subjected to threats and abuse on several occasions because of her work. In the early 2010s, she moved back to Somalia where, according to the radio, she has been living ever since.
In 2010, she received the Publicists Club’s freedom of expression award in memory of Anna Politkovskaja. Amun Abdullahi was 49 years old.