Nasteh Dahir Farah, a well-known Somali journalist, was brutally murdered in a targeted attack by two unknown gunmen on 7 June on his way home in the southern city of Kismayo. Farah had an expansive journalistic career that extended from being an international reporter to a teacher of journalism.

Farah was a BBC-Somali service reporter in Kismayo and a freelancer for Reuters News Agency. Formerly, he was the editor-in-chief of Jubba FM radio station. Since 2005, Farah had also been the vice-president of the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ). According to NUSOJ, Farah was a strong advocate for press freedom and was one of 25 journalists trained as a press freedom protector. He was also a journalism teacher for more than a dozen journalists in Gedo and Kismayo, Somalia.

"Hundreds of well-wishers, journalists, intellectuals, clan elders, politicians, civil society members and religious leaders turned out to pay their last respects to the renowned journalist at the 8 June funeral...They spoke about the late journalist’s neutrality while covering the armed political conflict," said a NUSOJ statement.

Only three days before Farah’s murder, NUSOJ urged the UN Security Council to protect Somali journalists. In their appeal, NUSOJ said, "We will not stop our work because of criminals who are accustomed to making our professional duties a battlefield."

Farah is the second Somali journalist to be killed this year and the tenth when combining the murders from 2007, making it the second deadliest country after Iraq for journalists in the world.