Yahye Mohamud Wehliye
He was a SO journalist, covering General reporting, killed on February 12, 2023 in Beledweyne, Somalia while working for Local radio.
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Yahye Mohamud Wehliye was a SO journalist who worked for Local radio, covering General reporting,. He was killed on February 12, 2023 in Beledweyne, Somalia, becoming one of the many journalists who have lost their lives covering this conflict.
February 12, 2023, Beledweyne, Somalia. Yahye Mohamud Wehliye was Gunshot. The death was documented by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
This death is part of the broader tragedy documented under Journalist Deaths ? Somalia. Journalists covering conflict zones face systematic targeting ? some by combatants who see the press as a threat, others through the indiscriminate violence of war. CPJ has tracked these deaths since 1992.
Source: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). CPJ profile: https://cpj.org/data/people/yahye-mohamud-wehliye/. The CPJ is an independent, nonprofit organization that promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal.
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Yahye Mohamud Wehliye was killed during Journalist Deaths - Somalia (from January 2020 to November -0001). The conflict concluded in November -0001. See the full roster of those killed in this conflict.
Among those documented in the same conflict: Abdiaziz Mohamud Guled, Abdalmuhsin Abdule Ahmed.