Fatuma Noor wins top journalism prize

As a Somali woman writing investigative stories, I face regular threats and my family's opposition

Fatuma Noor
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 3 July 2011

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Kenyan journalist wins CNN 2011 award in postzambia.com
My Encounter with American-Somali Jihadist in Nairobi in nairobistar.com—her article that won her the prize.

It's not always easy being a female investigative journalist, even in the west. But imagine going to do an interview and not being able to shake hands with the interviewee or indeed even being able to sit in front of him to ask questions.

Foiled hijack attempt: pilots fight for control

Three stabbed on flight, police arrest refugee

PRESS REPORTERS - The Press | Saturday, 09 February 2008

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Two pilots wrestled a knife-wielding woman to the floor after a terrifying mid-air ordeal in which she allegedly stabbed three people and tried to take control of the plane yesterday.

Published: Friday 25 January 2008 16:07 UTC
Last updated: Saturday 26 January 2008 07:26 UTC

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Mogadishu—Islamic insurgents in Somalia have raided Baledogle military airfield around 100 kilometres to the west of the capital Mogadishu. The rebels seized an unknown quantity of weapons and witnesses report that they killed three government soldiers. Baledogle is Somalia's main military airfield.

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A Kenyan girl looks on as Kenyan Internally Displaced People (IDP's) stay in the show ground stadium on January 22, 2008 in Eldoret, Kenya. ...

[Somalia is mentioned near the end (third page).]

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By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
Published: January 21, 2008

KERINGET, Kenya – At first the violence seemed as spontaneous as it was shocking, with machete-wielding mobs hacking people to death and burning women and children alive in a country that was celebrated as one of Africa’s most stable.

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Bomb blast kills three children in Somalia

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The Epoch Times Ireland

Omens in Kenya Atlantic Online - 17 hours ago ... many members of Kenya's Asian popluation (which constitutes a sort of "merchant class" in Kenya and much of East Africa) have been fleeing to Uganda. ...