Amun Abdullahi

Amun Abdullahi or Amun Abdullahi Mohammed, born October 23, 1974, is a Somali-Swedish journalist and founder of a girl's school in Mogadishu, Somalia.

Biography

Amun Abdullahi grew up in Somalia and came in the 1990s to Sweden as a refugee. In Sweden, she lived first in Umeå, then Stockholm's Rinkeby district, and finally Kista, before moving back to Mogadishu, Somalia.

In Stockholm, she worked for SR International, and made several high-profile reports broadcast on Sveriges Radio. Among other things, she revealed in 2009 that a leader of a youth center in Rinkeby recruited young people to the Somali Islamist militia al-Shabab.[1]

She has been both physically and intellectually attacked and repeatedly threatened due to her work. She claims that Sweden is "more dangerous than Mogadishu" for a journalist who wants to tell the truth.[2]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ From Somali refugee to Swedish reporter
  2. ↑ Somali Journalist: PC-Media makes Sweden "more dangerous than Mogadishu"
  3. ↑ SR International's Amun Abdullahi Mohamed Awarded Publicist Club Prize


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