{"id":209750,"date":"2021-11-26T13:31:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T11:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/directorgeneral-condemns-killing-of-journalist-abdiaziz-mohamud-guled-in-somalia?lang=en"},"modified":"2021-11-26T13:31:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T11:31:58","slug":"director-general-condemns-killing-of-journalist-abdiaziz-mohamud-guled-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/director-general-condemns-killing-of-journalist-abdiaziz-mohamud-guled-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Director-General condemns killing of journalist Abdiaziz Mohamud Guled in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/ef4fd0d8777c22d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/ef4fd0d8777c22d\" alt=\"United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)\" style=\"max-width:500px\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/ef4fd0d8777c22d\">Download logo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay has urged measures to protect the safety of journalists in Somalia following a suicide car bomb attack in the capital Mogadishu that claimed the life of&nbsp;Abdiaziz Mohamud Guled, also known as Abdiaziz Afrika, and inured another media professional and their driver&nbsp;on 20 November.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I condemn the murder of Abdiaziz Mohamud Guled. I urge the authorities to spare no effort in seeking out those responsible for this deadly attack against press freedom and the basic human right of freedom of expression.&rdquo; &mdash; Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO Director-General<\/p>\n<p>The Al-Shabab group claimed responsibility for the killing of Abdiaziz Mohamud Guled, a high profile journalist and the Director of government-owned&nbsp;Radio Mogadishu.&nbsp;Sharmarke Mohamed Warsame,&nbsp;the director of&nbsp;Somali National Television (SNTV), who was in the car with Guled, was critically injured in the blast, as was their driver,&nbsp;Abdukadir Abdullahi Nur.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Guled is the second journalist murdered in Somalia this year.<\/p>\n<p>UNESCO promotes the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.unesco.org\/themes\/safety-journalists\">safety of journalists<\/a>&nbsp;through global awareness-raising, capacity building and a range of actions, notably in the framework of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/ark:\/48223\/pf0000246014\">UN Plan of Action<\/a>&nbsp;on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity.<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download logo UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay has urged measures to protect the safety of journalists in Somalia following a suicide car bomb attack in the capital Mogadishu that claimed the life of&nbsp;Abdiaziz Mohamud Guled, also known as Abdiaziz Afrika, and inured another media professional and their driver&nbsp;on 20 November. &ldquo;I condemn the murder of Abdiaziz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[4585],"class_list":{"0":"post-209750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"tag-apo","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/director-general-condemns-killing-of-journalist-abdiaziz-mohamud-guled-in-somalia.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}