Gunmen fatally shoot Somali trader in Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Shot dead in a township: how extortion and xenophobia leave Somali shopkeepers exposed in South Africa
Late on a Thursday in Booysenpark, a low-rise neighbourhood of Port Elizabeth, the staccato of gunfire ended the life of a shopkeeper who had been trying, like many migrants, to make a modest living in South Africa. Sharmaarke Aadan Mohamed was killed inside his spaza shop — one more body on a long list of Somali traders who say they live under the constant threat of violence, robbery and organized extortion.
The killing…