We are not scared; we will tell our stories

Twenty-year-old Shukri Mohamed Abdi was born at the peak of the civil war in the south-West city of Baidoa, and recalls a childhood marked by frequent moves to escape violence. She first trained to be a nurse but, seeing first-hand the effects of war on ordinary people, she decided to become a journalist. When she did just that, however, becoming a radio journalist at a local station in Baidoa, she was mocked and bullied every time she was on her news beat as a radio journalist - not just by the men she worked with, but by her audience as well. Eventually the bullying turned to intimidation and threats against her life - she believes from the militant Islamist group Al Shabaab - and she had to flee to the capital, Mogadishu, in order to continue working as a journalist despite her parents' insistence that it was too dangerous and not a suitable profession for a woman.