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Under fire, Somalia’s brave journalists

Camera in one hand and pistol in the other, Somali reporter Abdukadir Hassan Abdirahman goes out to work on some of the most dangerous streets for journalists in the world. Sometimes reporting from anarchic Somalia — where at least 18 media workers have been killed this year, double the worst on record.