Angela Quintal

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Very few pictures exist of Ahmed Hussein-Suale. This was shown in several on Ghanaian TV in the past year, On 16 January, Ahmed Hussein-Suale, a Ghanaian investigative journalist who had, in collaboration with the BBC, was shot and killed near His Family home in Accra. Ghanaian police believe he was murdered because of his work.

first of all, the shots sounded like firecrackers, and Unus Alhassan asked me why someone was, set off fireworks so Long After Christmas.

It was almost midnight at Madina, a suburb of the Ghanaian capital, Accra. Alhassan family sit together and talk outside of The Family home, as they are often up late into The Night . His brother, Ahmed Hussein-Suale, had just left to check on a nephew who was ill. If the sound of the fireworks stopped, the body, and the ordinary noise of the neighborhood located Alhassan turned his attention back to His Family , and he didn't think The Sounds again, until A Man came up to him and is crying that his brother was dead.

about a hundred meters down The Road , Hussein-Suale, who was 31, was slumped on The Driver 's seat of his dusty blue BMW with bullet holes in his chest and neck. Eye-witnesses said that he was killed by two men who fire on The Car from close up, as it slows down for a crossing. The First bullet hit Hussein-Suale in the neck, and The Car accelerated, crashing into a shop window. One of The Gunmen approached quietly, The Driver 's side and fired two shots through The Broken window directly in Hussein-Suale s chest. Then he turned to the audience, smiled and raised a finger to his lips.

Three witnesses to The Crime , living in the vicinity, told the BBC she saw The Men hanging at the crossroads on several occasions in the week before The Killing - two unfamiliar faces in a familiar neighborhood. The Men , a large built and well, The Other refused to be short and wiry, on your motorcycle or chatted with the neighbors to pass the time. You bought alcohol from a shop and helped to carry A Man , and pails of water. A neighbor said she seemed suspicious. Another said she thought they were robbers.

But nothing was stolen, Hussein-Suale and no one believes him near, he was a random target. He was an investigative journalist whose undercover had suspended coverage at the time, human traffickers, murderers, corrupt officials and high court judges. He worked with Tiger-eye, a most mysterious team led by one of The Most famous undercover journalist in Africa, Anas Aremeyaw Anas. In Ghana and beyond, The Team ventured to make an anonymous report, you made it modern folk-heroes. And it made them to enemies.

If the Tiger Eye aired its last investigation, which exposed widespread corruption in African football, Ghana MP Kennedy Agyapong began a campaign of hostility against The Team , said he was offended by his undercover methods. He called publicly for Anas hanged. Weeks after the film was shown in June of last year, he has his own TV station to attack Hussein-Suale and The Journalist s put The Most closely guarded secret - his face.

"he is," said Agyapong, as images of the Hussein-Suale appeared on the screen. "His other image, it is as well, it is big. "

Agyapong revealed Hussein-Suale name and the neighborhood he lived in. "If you take him somewhere, to strike blow to him... him," he said. "Whatever Happens , I'm going to pay for it. "

Anas Aremeyaw Anas, in disguise, pray in addition to colleagues and friends in the Hussein-Suale funeral no one expected that The First recorded murder of a journalist in the year 2019 to happen in Ghana.

Over much of Africa, authoritarian regimes effectively The Free press is stifled. But in a handful of the less repressive countries, tough, young journalists hold to account the powerful and the promotion of a culture of investigative reporting. Ghana is at The Top of this list. Last year, the country was ranked First In Africa on the annual reporters Without borders press freedom index. Ranked 23 out of 180 countries - significantly ahead of the United Kingdom (40) and the USA (45.).

Anas, and his team, The Nation 's most high-profile Reporter. Anas was praised by the President of the country, Nana Akufo-Addo and President Barack Obama , who said he saw The Spirit of democracy "in courageous journalists like Anas Aremeyaw Anas, who risked his life to report The Truth ". In his 20 years of undercover journalism, has Anas, the as a female investor in high heels and lipstick; worked as a janitor in a brothel; put himself sent to prison; and hidden inside a fake rock on the side of The Road . At public appearances, he wears an eye-catching trim a hat with a colorful veil of beads hanging in front of his face. In Ghana, it is a symbol of resistance against corruption, the graffitied on the walls around the capital.

But behind The Mask it's just Ana's face. It is a team of highly qualified, investigative journalists, the reports her life is in danger, and stories, and Hussein-Suale chief was among them - Anas elected group leader.

We see that spirit in courageous journalists like Anas Aremeyaw Anas, who risked his life to report The Truth President Obama Hussein-Suale grew up among eight siblings in Wulensi, a Small Town in the North of Ghana, where he stood out for his fierce interest in politics. At 18, he moved to Accra to study Political Science at the University of Ghana, where he first met Anas.

Anas had already made a name for himself as an undercover reporter, and Tiger eye on a young team. Hussein-Suale was looking for him on the same path several early Tiger-eyes-employee had, by asking around until someone could tell him: this is The Man known as Anas. Anas replied, as he did to all potential recruits - he set him a test: trip to Tema, to the North of Accra, and report a story about cocaine. Hussein-Suale went to Tema and promptly failed. He blew his cover and got themselves arrested. "He is not my expectation," said Anas, in an interview with the BBC last week. "And that was it. "

But Hussein-Suale Anas wrote a long letter to explain why he should have Another Chance . "So I gave him Another Chance ," says Anas. "And from That Day he has next of a study. "

"Anas is to be observed, to do The Right thing" - graffiti in the capital, Accra, Hussein-Suale it is The First big story came in 2013, when he was believed to be the to set went with Anas to the North-Ghanaian medicine men behind the poisoning of children - often children with disabilities, from evil spirits possessed. In an elaborate sting-the typical Tiger-eye style, The Team made sure that the witchdoctor is "to visit brew men", A Family home with a supposedly possessed child. While the concoction men were outside cooking their poison, The Team exchanged the infant for a prosthetic baby. When The Men returned and took over The Fake baby, the police fired.

The-film - Ghost-child - International broadcast on Al Jazeera . Hussein-Suale, then 24, not impressed with Anas with his pragmatism, to hesitate when it came to the input of the witchdoctor ' Shrine s. "The average African spiritual fear, traditions, and gods, it is said," Anas. "But Ahmed was always fat. "

Its natural occurrence, it was The Opposite . He was quiet and reserved to a fault. "They would probably ignore him," said Sammy Darko, Tiger-eye is a lawyer, "but that's what made him a good fit for investigative journalism. "He was also diligent and hardworking. He was known as the "encyclopedia of The Team " for his detailed knowledge of the individual project and later as a "spiritual leader" for his habit of operations, leading a prayer in front of the undercover.

His cabin in Tiger Eye office, had, notes, and documents from various investigations, stacked on the Desk and stuck to the walls. "He would work you go quiet and do a lot of background," said a fellow investigator, "so if we came up with the story that we knew exactly what we were doing. "But he also had a playful streak. "I was upset with him once," recalls Seamus Mirodan, Director of The Spirit child. "One of The Village rs gave him a freshly slaughtered Guinea fowl as A Gift . He put it in my tripod bag, and it just shat all over The Inside of the bag. "

In the year 2015, Hussein-Suale took The Lead on a story, the swings would, Ghana and drive, Tiger's eye in The Nation al spotlight. "Ghana is in The Eyes of God" - a three-hours-undercover-epic, based on hundreds of hours of secret filming of the widespread corruption in Ghana's justice system, is exposed to judges and court shows workers bribes to accept, in order to influence cases. More Than 30 judges and 170 judicial officers involved. Seven of the country were exposed to 12 high court judges. The film played to 6,500 people in four presentations at the Accra International Conference Centre and brought traffic gridlock to The Streets of the capital.

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