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    December 18, 2011

Somali Journalist Shot, Killed

   VOA News

   A prominent journalist in Somalia has been shot and killed in the
   capital, Mogadishu.
   A spokesman for the east African country's Horn Cable TV said Abdisalam
   Sheikh Hussein was shot in the head by a man wearing a Somali
   government uniform.
   A government spokesman is quoted as saying there will be an
   investigation into the killing. But there have been as yet no arrests.
   Somali government and African Union forces are battling the Islamic
   militant group, al-Shabab, which controls most of central and southern
   Somalia.
   The country has endured 20 years of lawlessness and conflict since the
   fall of the last stable government.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP.

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