Somali journalist Mohamed Mohamoud Tuuryare died yesterday, one week after gunmen shot him while he was on his way home from running an errand, the National Union of Somali Journalists and other news reports said.

Tuuryare – 23 or 25 years old, depending on reports – was pronounced dead at Madina Hospital, where he was admitted into intensive care a week earlier with wounds to the chest and abdomen.

He is the 16th journalist killed in Somalia this year, according to the International Press Institute (IPI)’s Death Watch.

IPI Press Freedom Manager Barbara Trionfi said: “The political instability in Somalia is the root cause of deadly attacks against journalists, which will not stop until state institutions are able to bring the killers to justice.”