Kenyan journalist Fatuma Noor risked her life investigating members of Somali Islamist group Al-Shabaab but won a CNN MultiChoice African Journalist award for her reporting Ten years ago, a 14-year-old Kenyan schoolgirl set her heart on becoming a journalist.
Even as a teenager, Fatuma Noor could see there were stories which were not being told – and she wanted to share them with the world.
But last year, in her bid to tell just one such story, she found herself kidnapped and her life under threat. After eight hours she was released and not only managed to tell the story she set out to, but this year was awarded the top prize at the CNN MultiChoice African Journalist awards for her work.
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