Journalist Who Returned to Native Somalia to Help Locals Killed in Hotel Attack
Published on: Monday 15 July 2019
Abdikarim Olol contributed to this story from Las Anod.
WASHINGTON / LAS ANOD, SOMALIA - Among the 26 people killed at a hotel following a terrorist attack in southern Somalia Friday was Hodan Nalayeh, a television journalist who returned from the diaspora to help locals build a better life.
She was achieving her goals until al-Shabab militants gunned her down.
FILE - Soldiers patrol the seaport in Somalia's southern port city of Kismayo, November 29, 2012.Nalayeh was trying to change the narrative of reporting about Somalia, which she considered “mostly negative,” according to Siad Ali, the
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