Nasteh Dahir

Nasteh Dahir Farah (1972 or 1973 – June 7, 2008) was a Somali reporter, and vice-president of the National Union of Somali Journalists.[http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gPfx7c0bO9FHl4Vcubzn0oPpTACg "Somalie: le correspondent de la BBC à Kismayo tué par balles"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080612162748/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gPfx7c0bO9FHl4Vcubzn0oPpTACg |date=2008-06-12 }}, AFP, June 7, 2008 He was murdered in Kismayo, Somalia, on June 7, 2008.[http://www.apanews.net/apa.php?page=show_article&id_article=65966 "Un reporter de la BBC tué par des hommes armés au Sud de la Somalie"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080612120151/http://www.apanews.net/apa.php?page=show_article&id_article=65966 |date=2008-06-12 }}, Agence de Presse Africaine, June 8, 2008

Dahir, described as a "leading Somali journalist",[http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/07/somalia.journalist/ "Leading Somali journalist slain"], CNN, June 7, 2008 was a local correspondent in Somalia for the British Broadcasting Corporation and the Associated Press news agency. He received death threats before being murdered. He was shot by gunmen and died in a hospital in Kismayo. Reporters Without Borders stated that the killers had not been identified,[http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=27363 "Reporters sans frontières bouleversée par l’assassinat du vice-président de son organisation partenaire en Somalie"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080609185433/http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=27363 |date=2008-06-09 }}, Reporters Without Borders, June 7, 2008 but the BBC and Al Jazeera reported that the killing had been attributed to Islamist insurgents.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7442181.stm "Somali BBC contributor shot dead"], BBC, June 7, 2008[http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/48DFB241-0F97-4260-8C82-007F4C88AE4B.htm "Somali journalist shot dead"], Al Jazeera, June 7, 2008