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Somaliland Journalist Ahmed Farah Ilyas Assasinated

A journalist in the breakaway republic of Somaliland has been killed by gunmen as he returned home. Ahmed Farah Ilyas was a reporter in L...

A journalist in the breakaway republic of Somaliland has been killed by gunmen as he returned home.
Ahmed Farah Ilyas was a reporter in Las Anod, the main city of the volatile Sool region, for UK-based Somali station Universal TV.

Before he was shot, he had been covering the story of a landmine explosion blamed by the authorities on al-Qaeda-aligned Islamist militants.

Ilyas is the 16th journalist to be killed in Somalia this year.

Since the overthrow of President Siad Barre in 1991, Somalia has seen clan-based warlords, Islamist militants and its neighbours all battling for control of the country.

Somaliland declared independence in the wake of Mr Barre's ousting - and has been a far more peaceful part of Somali territory, although Sool is in an area also claimed by the autonomous Somali state of Puntland and has experienced some unrest.
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