A Somali columnist who helped al-Shabab murder five kindred correspondents has been executed by terminating squad.

Hassan Hanafi, once a regarded telecaster, was sentenced to death a month ago by a military court in the capital, Mogadishu.

He helped the Islamist aggressor bunch by distinguishing conceivable focuses amongst writers somewhere around 2007 and 2011.

He joined its furnished wing in the wake of working for Radio Andalus, al-Shabab's mouthpiece in Somalia.

More than 25 writers have been killed in Somalia since 2007, the Committee to Protect Journalists says.While he was working for al-Shabab, Hanafi would ring columnists and debilitate them with death on the off chance that they declined to join the activist gathering, the BBC Somali's Mohammud Ali says.

Al-Shabab much of the time stages assaults in Mogadishu and different urban communities, and still controls numerous provincial zones in southern Somalia.