Malaysian journalist killed in Somalia
A Malaysian journalist has been killed in an attack by African Union (AU) forces in southern Mogadishu, Press TV reports.
Witnesses said on Friday that the AU forces opened fire on a vehicle transporting five Malaysian doctors and one Malaysian journalist near the international airport of the Somali capital, the Press TV correspondent in Mogadishu reported.
The five other Malaysians were seriously injured in the incident.
The AU forces say that they believed the Malaysians were “terrorists” and that they targeted the vehicle “mistakenly.”
The Malaysian doctors had recently arrived in Mogadishu on a mission to provide medical care to the Somali people.
Drought and famine have affected more than 11.8 million people across Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia. Somalia has been the hardest-hit country in what is being described as the worst drought in the Horn of Africa in 60 years.
According to the United Nations, a quarter of Somalia's 9.9 million people are now either internally displaced or living outside the country as refugees.
The UN has declared famine in five regions of Somalia and says that the international humanitarian response to the crisis has been insufficient.
Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991, when warlords overthrew former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.
MINDA MERDEKA
ANAK MALAYSIA
LAWAN KEMBALI
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