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FILE PHOTO: 30 North Gould Street is pictured in Sheridan, Wyoming, U.S., November 30, 2023. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart/File Photo

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Somali reporter Abdalle Ahmed Mumin was doubly distressed when he heard that a colleague had been abducted by masked gunmen at the University of Mogadishu on the morning of Aug. 17.

A fellow journalist was missing and Mumin - the chairman of the Somali Journalists Syndicate - had little way of getting the word out. Digital sabotage had knocked his syndicate's website and email accounts offline a few days earlier.