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- ↑ Somali Journalist: PC-Media makes Sweden "more dangerous than Mogadishu" , retrieved 2022-10-01
- ↑ "SR International's Amun Abdullahi Mohamed Awarded Publicist Club Prize". Sveriges Radio (in Swedish). 2010-03-15. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
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