{"id":2986,"date":"2014-06-21T22:00:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T15:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=2986"},"modified":"2014-06-21T22:00:37","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T15:00:37","slug":"somali-journalist-ahmed-abukar-killed-in-mogadishu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/somalia\/somali-journalist-ahmed-abukar-killed-in-mogadishu\/","title":{"rendered":"Somali journalist Ahmed Abukar killed in Mogadishu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 27-year-old Somali journalist has been killed by a car explosion in Mogadishu. Yusuf Ahmed Abukar was driving through the capital&#8217;s Hamarweyne district on his way to work when the bomb went off.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they believed the bomb, which was attached to the journalist\u2018s car, was remotely detonated. Abukar, a prominent journalist who also used the name Yusuf Keynan, had worked with the private Mogadishu FM station Mustaqbal and also contributed to the Kenya-based UN humanitarian radio Ergo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a very shocking tragedy,&#8221; the journalist Abdifatah Halane told the German news agency DPA.<\/p>\n<p>Abukar had become known for criticizing both the Somali government and the Islamist militant group al-Shabaab, which has recently launched attacks against the parliament in Mogadishu and abroad in Kenya. In 2013, Abukar won the UN-sponsored Somali Media Awards&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Somalia News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.de\/prominent-somali-journalist-ahmed-abukar-killed-in-mogadishu\/a-17726422\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Somalia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/somalia\/\">Somalia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 27-year-old Somali journalist has been killed by a car explosion in Mogadishu. Yusuf Ahmed Abukar was driving through the capital&#8217;s Hamarweyne district on his way to work when the bomb went off. Police said they believed the bomb, which was attached to the journalist\u2018s car, was remotely detonated. Abukar, a prominent journalist who also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[253],"tags":[258,256,570,1346,1349,4695,356,1350,449,257,1344,1345,4690,442,254,1347,1348],"class_list":["post-2986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-somalia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-al-shabaab","tag-car-explosion-in-mogadishu","tag-criticizing-both-the-somali-government","tag-east-africa","tag-islamist-militant-group","tag-islamist-militant-group-al-shabaab","tag-mogadishu","tag-news","tag-somali-journalist-has-been-killed","tag-somali-journalist-has-been-killed-by-a-car-explosion-in-mogadishu","tag-somalia","tag-somalia-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-yusuf-ahmed-abukar","tag-yusuf-keynan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}