Amun Abdullahi or Amun Abdullahi Mohammed (born October 23, 1974) is a Somali-Swedish
journalist
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and founder of a girls' school in
Mogadishu
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,
Somalia
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.
Biography
Amun Abdullahi grew up in Somalia and came in the 1990s to
Sweden
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as a
refugee
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Umeå
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Situated on the Ume River, Ume ...
, then
Stockholm
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's
Rinkeby
Rinkeby () is a stadsdel, district in the Rinkeby-Kista borough, Stockholm, Sweden. Rinkeby had 19,349 inhabitants in 2016. The neighbourhood was part of the Million Programme.
The Stockholm metro station Rinkeby metro station, Rinkeby was also o ...
district, and finally
Kista
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, before moving back to Mogadishu, Somalia.
In Stockholm, she worked for
SR International, and made several high-profile reports broadcast on
Sveriges Radio
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. Among other things, she revealed in 2009 that a leader of a youth center in
Rinkeby
Rinkeby () is a stadsdel, district in the Rinkeby-Kista borough, Stockholm, Sweden. Rinkeby had 19,349 inhabitants in 2016. The neighbourhood was part of the Million Programme.
The Stockholm metro station Rinkeby metro station, Rinkeby was also o ...
recruited young people to the Somali Islamist militia
al-Shabab.
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.
Awards
* 2010:
Swedish Publicists' Association Freedom of Speech prize in memory of
Anna Politkovskaya
Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya (;, ; uk, Ганна Степанівна Політковська , 30 August 1958 – 7 October 2006) was a Russian journalist and human rights activist, who reported on political events in Russia, in partic ...
.
References
1974 births
Living people
Swedish journalists
Swedish people of Somali descent
Swedish women journalists
Swedish columnists
Somalian journalists
Somalian women journalists
Swedish women columnists
Somalian women columnists
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