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South African journalist Micah Reddy missing in Djibouti

Local fixer, Kooki Mahmoud, also missing since Saturday noon

Micah Reddy, who reported for amaBhungane from 2017 to 2023. Photo taken from The Eastleigh Voice as fair use
South African journalist Micah Reddy and his local fixer Kooki Mahmoud have been missing in Djibouti since about noon on Saturday.
Reddy worked for amaBhungane from 2017 to 2023. AmaBhungane’s managing parter Sam Sole said: “Micah is a very gifted and fearless journalist, who has never been afraid to put himself personally on the line, as he showed in some of the aftermath of the #GuptaLeaks and other more recent stories. That makes his disappearance – and that of his local fixer Kooki Mahmoud – intensely worrying.”
Sole emphasised that according to the information amaBhungane had, Reddy’s current investigation was not…

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