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3 unusual facts about Ali Iman Sharmarke


Ali Iman Sharmarke

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) suggested in a statement that "this wave of killing and injuring media people was an intentionally organised mission to silence journalistic voices in Somalia."

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On 11 August 2007, Sharmarke's co-worker at HornAfrik's Capital Voice private radio station, Mahad Ahmed Elmi, who ran a popular daily morning call-in show on crime and security operations, was gunned down by unknown assailants as he entered his office in the early morning.

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In early 1999, Sharmarke and fellow Somali emigrants to Canada Ahmed Abdisalam Adan and Mohamed Elmi returned to Mogadishu following a period of relative calm in order to finalize market research that they had conducted on the feasibility and technological equipment necessary to start a new media company in the city.



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