Mohamed Hirmoge

Mohamed Hirmoge is a Kenyan-Somali Journalist based in Mogadishu, Somalia. He is a correspondent for CGTN in the Horn of Africa. Mohamed is a foreign reporter in Somalia´s capital, Mogadishu that is well known for its hostility towards journalists.
Mogadishu is one of the world´s most riskiest cities for foreign reporters. However, Mohamed has since reported on more positive aspects of a city torn apart by two decades of civil unrest and militancy albeit rising from the ashes to reconstruction.

Mohamed has secured interviews with the Somali Prime Minister, the Mayor of Mogadishu and President Ismail Omar Guelleh of Djibouti on the Somalia question.

He has filed many front line stories from Mogadishu where African Union peacekeeping forces battle the Alqaeda linked Alshabab militant group almost on a daily basis.

Follow  Mohamed Hirmoge on Twitter: @mhirmoge

STORIES BY MOHAMED HIRMOGE

July 5, 2015

Somalia argues against 800km Kenya-Somalia border wall

Kenya plans to build a wall along its 800 kilometer border with Somalia. Officials say the move will curtail incursions into the country from Al-shabaab militants who have carried out several daring attacks. But Somalia argues that the plan is not the way to go. Read More...
September 7, 2014

Somali government offers amnesty to al-Shabab fighters

In one week’s operation, Somali and African union troops advanced and got closer to the sea side town of Barawe, which is one of the remaining strongholds of al-Shabab. In the same week, the group lost its ultimate leader to an American drone strike. Read More...
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