Eric Laroche, the UN resident and humanitarian coordinator for Somalia, has "strongly condemned" the killings of two Somali journalists and called for "decisive action to ensure the freedom and safety of the media." Radio HornAfrik journalist Mahad Ahmed Elmi was shot dead on Saturday. Then, when returning from Elmi's funeral, the station's founder and chairman, Ali Iman Sharmarke, was killed as his car passed a roadside bomb. Laroche says six journalists that have been killed in Somalia since the beginning of the year. (Via Voice of America)
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