According to information obtained by Ekot, Abdullahi was shot dead by masked men in the city of Afgooye, northwest of the capital Mogadishu. There is no known motive for the shooting, but the area has been attacked several times by the terrorist group al-Shabaab.
Amun Abdullahi came to Sweden as a refugee in 1992 and worked for many years at Swedish Radio's Somali editorial office. There, she made several notable reports, including one on how al-Shabaab recruited young people at a youth center in the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby.
She was also involved in adult education in Rinkeby, where she lived for several years.
She was subjected to threats and assault on several occasions due to her work. In the early 2010s, she moved back to Somalia, where she has been living since then, according to the radio.
In 2010, she received the Publicist Club's Freedom of Speech Award in memory of Anna Politkovskaya. Amun Abdullahi was 49 years old.
