Nasteh Dahir

Nasteh Dahir Farah (1972 or 1973 – June 7, 2008) was a Somali reporter, and vice-president of the National Union of Somali Journalists.^[1] He was murdered in Kismayo, Somalia, on June 7, 2008.^[2]

Dahir, described as a "leading Somali journalist",^[3] was a local correspondent in Somalia for the British Broadcasting Corporation and the Associated Press news agency. He received death threats before being murdered. He was shot by gunmen and died in a hospital in Kismayo.^[1] Reporters Without Borders stated that the killers had not been identified,^[4] but the BBC and Al Jazeera reported that the killing had been attributed to Islamist insurgents.^[5][6]

See also

• Abdul Samad Rohani, a BBC journalist murdered on the same day or the following day in Afghanistan