Amun Abdullahi

Amun Abdullahi or Amun Abdullahi Mohammed (born October 23, 1974) is a Somali-Swedish journalist and founder of a girls' school in Mogadishu, Somalia.

Biography

Amun Abdullahi grew up in Somalia and came in the 1990s to Sweden as a refugee. In Sweden, she lived first in Umeå, then Stockholm's Rinkeby district, and finally Kista, before moving back to Mogadishu, Somalia.

In Stockholm, she worked for SR International, and made several high-profile reports broadcast on Sveriges Radio. Among other things, she revealed in 2009 that a leader of a youth center in Rinkeby recruited young people to the Somali Islamist militia al-Shabab.[1]

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.[2]

Awards
gollark: But otherwise I don't think so.
gollark: Server bans are also IP-based, apparently.
gollark: Also the thing where if you interact with a problem in any way you immediately become ethically responsible for it.
gollark: In any case, I think it's a good *description* of part of human behavior, because people often really like motivated reasoning.
gollark: Well, John Searle's Chinese Room Experiment proved that no computer could understand Chinese, meaning they can't be sentient. Since humans are implemented in physics, like computers, we are also computers, and so not sentient. QED.

References
  1. From Somali refugee to Swedish reporter
  2. Somali Journalist: PC-Media makes Sweden "more dangerous than Mogadishu"
  3. SR International's Amun Abdullahi Mohamed Awarded Publicist Club Prize


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