{"id":60886,"date":"2021-01-06T18:38:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T18:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/?p=60886"},"modified":"2021-01-06T18:38:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T18:38:04","slug":"ahmed-abdinur-prominent-bbc-somali-editor-reporter-dies-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/06\/ahmed-abdinur-prominent-bbc-somali-editor-reporter-dies-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahmed Abdinur \u2013 Prominent BBC Somali Editor, Reporter Dies of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"css-hl9dz2-GridComponent e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"css-qg6qrj-Paragraph e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">One of the most famous veteran journalists of the BBC Somali Service has died in London, England.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-hl9dz2-GridComponent e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"css-qg6qrj-Paragraph e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">Ahmed Abdinur, whose name and voice are well known in Somalia, died of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to his wife, Seynab Yasin Hirsi, a former female journalist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-hl9dz2-GridComponent e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"css-qg6qrj-Paragraph e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">The news of his death came as a shock to the BBC staff in general, and to his colleagues and to all who saw him as a role model.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-hl9dz2-GridComponent e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"css-qg6qrj-Paragraph e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">Ahmed Abdinur joined the BBC in June 1996 and became a reporter for the Somali Language Service in Mogadishu.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Source:\u00a0<em>BBC<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most famous veteran journalists of the BBC Somali Service has died in London, England. Ahmed Abdinur, whose name and voice are well known in Somalia, died of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to his wife, Seynab Yasin Hirsi, a former female journalist. The news of his death came as a shock to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-english-news","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arabsiyonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/BBC-Somali-Abdinur-1.png?fit=800%2C596&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5kp1p-fQ2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60892,"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60886\/revisions\/60892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}