AFP Somali reporter wins CNN African journalist award

[Jacaylbaro]

NAIROBI — Agence France-Presse's Somalia correspondent Mustafa Haji Abdinur has been awarded the CNN Multichoice African Journalist of the Year Award in the Free Press category. Abdinur, 28, who has been AFP's Mogadishu-based correspondent since 2006, was among several African journalists recognised at the ceremony in the Ugandan capital Kampala on Saturday.

 

"Friends, I live in a country whose name has unfortunately become a synonym for lawlessness, where human life is not worth a lot and where press freedom simply does not exist," said Abdinur.

 

He was chosen "for his work in Somalia including the 'Peace Journalism' initiative which he launched with the help of fellow Somali journalists earlier this year," organisers said.

 

The CNN Multichoice Free Press Africa Award has previously been presented to the late Deyda Hydara from Gambia and the imprisoned Eritrean journalist Seyoum Tsehaye Musa Saidykhan.

 

The CNN African Journalist of the Year Award was founded in 1995 by Edward Boateng and the late Mohamed Amin to recognise and encourage excellence in journalism throughout Africa.

 

In November 2009, Abdinur won the Committee to Protect Journalists' (CPJ) International Press Freedom Awards.

[Jacaylbaro]

[Blessed]

Good no him.

[Juxa]

cute and clever, congrats to abdinur

[Dhubad.]

^ You call tha cute

 

Well done on him.

[Kool_Kat]

Markaan ciwaanka aqriyay waxaan is iri 'JB wax aan SL ku lug leheen inooma soo dhajinaayo'...Hmmmmm, tolow wiilka ma reer SL buu u dhashay?

 

Congrats to Mustafa...Allaha u sahlana shaqadiisa...

[Ilka-dahable]

congratulation sxb

[Juxa]

dhubad give the guy something waaxay bakhiilnimada?

[Jacaylbaro]

Originally posted by Kool_Kat:

Markaan ciwaanka aqriyay waxaan is iri 'JB wax aan SL ku lug leheen inooma soo dhajinaayo'...Hmmmmm, tolow wiilka ma reer SL buu u dhashay?

,,, malaa waad sii naxnaxaysayba ,,, lol

[Kool_Kat]

Sii naxi maayee, inaan inanka sii baadho baan ka baqan...

[Jacaylbaro]

mid reer qardho sheegta baa amaanayay oo ana xagaaasaaban uga shakisanaaye ,,, bal soo baadh ,,

[Chocolate and Honey]

Congrats!

[Somalina]

A well deserved award indeed. Congratulations.