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Yusuf Ali Osman, better known as Yusuf Farey, was a journalist and past director of Radio Mogadishu working for the Somalia's federal transitions and governments ministry of information and telecommunications. He was in charge of the media affairs at the ministry and acted as a media trainer. On (August 12, 2012), in Mogadishu the capital of Somalia in the Dharkenley District by gunmen. His son, Hassan Yusuf, confirmed his death early on Sunday morning, on August 12, 2012. This is an attack accomplished by Al-shabaab terrorists, an Islamist insurgent group.

Personal
Yusuf Ali Osman passed when he was in his 60's, being buried just hours after his assassination. Osman was not the only journalist killed on that Sunday in August. In a different murder on the same day, Mohamud Ali Yare was struck by several bullets after government troops opened fire in a sports stadium.

Career
Yusuf Ali Osman was from the Dharkenley District in Mogadishu, Somalia. He acted as a media journalist, director of Radio Mogadishu, and handled media affairs at the ministry. He was also one of the founding members of the Somali Sports Press Association in 1997 and Vice President of Somali Tennis Federation for 8 years. Osman was once a lecturer at the Somalia Journalist Club as well.

Death
One Sunday morning while Yusuf Ali Osman was walking on his way into work near his car, three unidentified gunman disguised as high school boys shot and killed him with a pistol on August 12, 2012. He was announced dead publicly by his son Hasaan Yusuf later that Sunday morning. Osman was assassinated by an Islamist group known as Al-Shabab because they thought to believe he was working for Somalia's Transitional Federal Government, as known as the TFG. Just in the year 2012 Osman is the eighth known journalist to be murdered in Somali making the country to be the second most dangerous area for journalists to be active in their career. Unfortunately, the gunmen were never found.

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Context
Somalia has been undergoing a civil war for decades being carried on by an Islamist militant group known as Al-Shabab. Since 1991, when the war began, 64 journalists from Somalia have been killed due to their career. Unfortunately, not one journalist murder has been jusitified within the years of 2010-2012. It is known that the Transitional Federal Government has not acted on attempting to address or document the multiple killings of journalist in Somalia. Since Mohamed Siad Barre was overthrown a two decades ago the country has not experienced an effective and justice driven government. Somalia is tried with Syria in being the most dangerous country for journalists to live in. Many journalists in Somalia will assume they are safe due to being active in an area controlled by the government, but this does not mean that criminals are not walking without justice.

Impact
Yusuf Ali Osman, also known as “Farey” is important due to his involvement with the federal transitional government’s ministry information as well as communications. He also was once the director of Radio Mogadishu and in charge of media affaris at the ministry. Osman is also connected to the murder of Mohamud Ali Keyre, a 23 year old journalist known as “Buneyste.” He was hit in the head with a bullet in a sports stadium said to be shot by a government soldier, Keyre was prooucned dead at the hospital. He worked as a freelancer for the Horyaalmedia.comnews website and used to work for Voice of Democracy a Mogadishu-based radio station.

Reactions
The President of the Somali Sports Press Assosiciation, Abdi Aziz Godah Barre shared his knowledge of the horrible killings that are being brought on by the terrorist group, Al-shabaab. Barre stated that “Yusuf was a great man in the field of sports whose remembrance will always remain in our minds.” The U.N. representative to Somalia voiced how appalled the country was by the murder of Osman and remembered him for being a verteran director who helped Somalia through many difficult years. Augustine Mahiga, the U.N. representative to Somalia stated “I send my deepest condolences to their families and to all Somali media professionals, who for too long have seen their colleagues targeted, injured and assassinated without a single perpetrator being brought to justice.” And continued to state his want for the violence and corruptions to end.