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Abdullahi Hassan Gedi nicknamed "Janune" by his colleagues who is the co-founder and photographer of the famous Somali website known as Daynile is suffering a stroke, which left him partially, paralyzed and forced him unable to speak.

Mr Janune used to be a jack-of-all-trades for one of Somalia's first independent websites called Daynile and was the first professional photographer who came on the stage in order to make a living from the photography.

Abdishakur Elmi Hassan, who was one of his colleagues said " Janune was one of the first photographers who took the cameras at time when being a photographer in Mogadishu was a matter of life and death, he dared to take the camera and begun to tell the story at difficult time when there were no photographers on the ground because of the insecurity and the chaos in the capital Mogadishu, so, he deserves to be survived now".

In the face of these obstacles, Janune still believes in the power of photography. When we visited him at the hospital today, he was only gesturing and couldn't afford to speak. Janune was also a writer and was famous in Mogadishu for his dramatic pictures.

Like most local journalists working in Mogadishu, Janune had multiple encounters .first of all he was the breadwinner of 7 children which only waits the money Janune makes from the photography.

His wife Mulki Yusuf said," since yesterday my children consumed no food due to lack of money and the children this morning were beginning to cry for milk"

Somali Journalists are asking the international community to help provide medical assistance to Janune, whose leg and hand paralyzed by the stroke.

Janune received some medical attention for hours now but the hospital was not able to heal his mind and leg due to poor health care.

Abdishakur said “I am very concerned about the condition of Janune because there are outstanding hospital bills which he can't afford to pay and doctors are saying he needs further medical treatment in the overseas since there are less qualified doctors in the country because of the insecurity and the violence

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