CNN reports sixty-year old longtime Somalia journalist Barkhat Awale Adan was caught in the crossfire of a raging gun battle in the capital city of Mogadishu between al-Qaida-linked Al Shabaab rebels and Somalia’s government forces. The director of Hurma Radio was on the station’s roof helping to repair the independent station’s transmitter when he was hit by a stray bullet. Tom Rhodes of the Committee to Protect Journalists released a statement, saying “Both sides of the conflict have shown no regard for the lives of journalists and other civilians. We call on African Union troops and Al Shabaab to safeguard the lives of journalists.” Somalia ranks as the most dangerous place for journalists to work on the African continent. Seven of the nine journalists killed in Somalia in 2009 worked in radio. Earlier this year, Radio Mogadishu’s Sheikh Nur Mohamed Abkey was killed by three men. He was the first journalist killed in the lawless nation this year.