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- 1 2 3 Olad Hassan, Mohamed (2021-11-20). "Car Bomb Kills Popular Broadcast Journalist in Somalia". Voice of America . Archived from the original on 2021-11-21. Retrieved 2021-11-21.
- ↑ "Somali journalist Abdi hassan Guled killed in suicide attack". BBC. 20 November 2021.
- ↑ "Somali journalist Abdiaziz Mohamud Guled killed, two others injured, in bombing claimed by Al-Shabaab". UNESCO. 22 November 2021. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
- ↑ "Director-General condemns killing of journalist Abdiaziz Mohamud Guled in Somalia". UNESCO. 25 November 2021. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
- ↑ "Observatory of Killed Journalists". UNESCO. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
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