Here in Somalia we worry about how and when we will be killed. Since I started reporting from Mogadishu in 1991, I have received 176 threats and 22 death threats. Some come from supporters of politicians made famouse by civil war, some from bandits at road blocks who suspect I earn a lot of money from my journalistic skills. When I report the words of a politician denouncing another, people don't blame the politician, the blame me, the reporter. You earn your bread by creating political confrontations.
Somali journalists meet curses, harassment, abductions, killings and torture on a daily basis.
What's more, our families share the treats with us. They are told that they should stop their sons from reporting. He can't survive if he goes on like this. Many Mogadishu citizens are armed, and most of them are clannish hard liners. They try to censor the work of the journalists.