When Liban Abdullahi Farah was gunned down in Galkayo, a city in the central province of Puntland, in July, he became the sixth journalist to die violently in Somalia this year. This comes as a media law just introduced in Mogadishu, the capital, forces journalists to reveal their sources, curtailing whatever press freedom existed previously. In Somaliland, an autonomous region in the country's north, independence-minded leaders tout media freedom as one of several democratic achievements. But they are beginning to display some of their big brothers' ugly traits. In April an off-duty policeman and an accomplice attacked the offices of Hubaal, a newspaper, in Hargeisa, the capital. Its manager, Mohamed Ahmed Jama Aloley, was beaten and shot. He suffered a broken arm before colleagues could wrestle his assailants to the ground.
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机译：7月，黎巴嫩中部省份邦特兰（Guntka）的加尔卡约（Galkayo）枪杀了里班·阿卜杜拉·希·法拉（Liban Abdullahi Farah）时，他成为今年第六位在索马里暴力死亡的记者。这是在首都摩加迪沙刚刚实施的一项媒体法迫使新闻工作者透露其消息来源时，限制了以前存在的任何新闻自由。在该国北部的自治区索马里兰，独立思想领袖将媒体自由视为几项民主成就之一。但是他们开始表现出一些大兄弟的丑陋特质。 4月，一名值班的警察和同伙袭击了首都哈尔格萨的一家报纸Hubaal的办公室。其经理穆罕默德·艾哈迈德·贾玛·阿洛利（Mohamed Ahmed Jama Aloley）被殴打并被枪杀。在同事们可以将袭击者摔倒在地之前，他的胳膊骨折了。
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