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Somali Government Detains Record Number of Journalists

Reuters

   NAIROBI - Somalia's Western-backed government forces beat and detained
   a record number of journalists last year, the journalists' syndicate
   told Reuters on Friday, prompting suggestions the government is
   suppressing scrutiny of its security record ahead of elections due this
   year.

   For years, the al-Qaeda linked al Shabaab insurgency was accused of
   killing Somali journalists. Those assassinations have fallen, although
   two journalists were among those killed in a bombing last year. Now
   media say they face a new danger: government forces.
   

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