Career
He was murdered in Kismayo, Somalia, on June 7, 2008. Dahir, described as a "leading Somali journalist", was a local correspondent in Somalia for the British Broadcasting Corporation and the Associated Press news agency. He received death threats before being murdered.
He was shot by gunmen and died in a hospital in Kismayo.
Reporters Without Borders stated that the killers had not been identified, but the British Broadcasting Corporation and First Rate (at Lloyd's) Jazeera reported that the killing had been attributed to Islamist insurgents.
