https://fd.tllester.info/tags/somali-poet/Recent content in Somali-Poet on freeDimensionalHugoen-usTue, 30 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://fd.tllester.info/celebrated-somali-poet-killed-by-gunmen/Tue, 30 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://fd.tllester.info/celebrated-somali-poet-killed-by-gunmen/<p><a href="https://fd.tllester.info/freedimensional/images/awale.jpg"><img src="https://fd.tllester.info/freedimensional/images/awale.jpg" alt="" title="awale"></a><strong>Popular Somali poet, playwright and songwriter Warsame Shire Awale has been killed in the capital, Mogadishu.</strong></p> <p><strong>He was shot by unknown gunmen near his home on Monday evening.</strong></p> <p><strong>Mr. Awale wrote and acted in radio plays critical of the militant group, al-Shabab, who he accused of misleading people in the name of Islam.</strong></p> <p>According to information received by NUSOJ, Warsame Shire Awale, a renowned poet who worked for Radio Kulmiye, was attacked on the evening of 29 October 2012 near his house in the Waberi district. He was reportedly shot several times by unidentified gunmen and was immediately rushed to the Daru Shifa hospital, where he was declared dead.</p>