Hodan Naaleeye, integration TV presenter dies in the Kismaayo attack.

[Abdillahi]

To be honest what did she expect would happen to her running around a failed state with no protection and living with strangers not her kin. Somalia is extremely dangerous and no place for a freelance journalist. May she rest in peace.

[Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar]

It has been almost a year since her untimely murder. Rabi ha u raxmado. Warkaan hoose ayaa ku soo xasuustay:

Friend completes podcast with slain Somali-Canadian journalist Hodan Nalayeh

When Somali-Canadian journalist Hodan Nalayeh died in a July 2019 bomb attack in Somalia, recordings for a project she was working on with a friend back home in Canada were left behind.

Nalayeh and Fartumo Kusow, a writer from Windsor, Ont., were in the early days of producing a series about being single mothers, and the challenges it poses within the Somali-Canadian community.

The two friends would talk often on the phone, which Nalayeh would sometimes record, laying the groundwork for the podcast they wanted to create together. Their plan was to get together in a studio at some point, and record the final version of their series.

When Nalayeh was killed, the podcast was incomplete. But now, with the help of CBC Windsor journalist Amy Dodge, Kusow has completed her friend's final work.

Using a combination of recordings made by Nalayeh herself in the months before her death, and new recordings done by Kusow in a Windsor studio, the podcast was created.

To listen the podcast episodes.