Abdullahi Madkeer
Year: 2003
Nationality: Somalia
Killed by: Paramilitary Group
Location: Baidoa, Somalia
Press organization: DMC Radio
What's Abdullahi Madkeer's story?
Madkeer, a journalist with DMC Radio, was accidentally shot in the stomach by members of the Rahanweyn Resistance Army (RRA) militia while covering the reopening of Baidoa Airport in the southwest of the country, according to the Somali Journalists’ Network (SOJON) and the Action Alert Group, a press freedom organization. He was taken to a hospital and died that day after doctors refused to operate on him because he was HIV positive.
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