Somali television director Abdirizak Jama Elmi – known as "Black" – is in hospital after being shot and seriously wounded outside his home in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.
The director of the London based Somali Channel TV was shot three times as he fled from gunmen who confronted him on Sunday (12 October).
The shooting was immediately condemned by Somalia's information minister and by the African Union Mission in Somalia, which said the attack was the third targeting journalists in Somalia this year.
The murder attempt occurred hours before a car bomb exploded outside a popular cafe in Mogadishu, killing 11 people and wounding eight others.
No group has claimed responsibility for either attack but suspicion in both cases has fallen on al-Shabaab militants
Sources: HRW/Somali Current/Diplomat.so/AP via Miami Herald
