Ruhila Adatia-Sood

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Ruhila Adatia-Sood (* 1975 in Kitisuru ; † September 21, 2013 in Nairobi ) was a Kenyan journalist and presenter of the Radio Africa Group led by Asian immigrants .

biography

Adatia-Sood was born as the youngest of four daughters to an Indian family in Kitisuru , a suburb of Nairobi . She attended the Aga Khan Academy in Nairobi and graduated from Rhodes University in Grahamstown with a degree in journalism in 2007 . After completing her studies, she worked for the Kenyan Radio Africa Group from 2007, for which she moderated the radio station East FM and the television station Kiss TV. At Kiss TV, she hosted e-news, the Kiss 100 ranking show and the music program X-FM. Since 2011 she has hosted a children's cookery program together with her colleague Kamal Kaur , who is also from India . This has been recorded once a month since spring 2011 in the Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi.

38-year-old Adatia-Sood was injured in the attack on the Westgate shopping center run by Islamist Al-Shabaab militiamen while she was hosting a recording of a Kiss TV children's cooking competition. She died on the way to the Aga Khan Hospital in Nairobi . At the time of her death, she was six months pregnant with their first child. She had only married Ketan Sood, an employee of the United States Agency for International Development , in January 2012 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Radio journalist Ruhila Adatia Killed in Westgate Attack: Her Last Media Update . In: mwakilishi.com , September 21, 2013. Archived from the original on September 24, 2013. Retrieved September 22, 2013. 
  2. ^ Indian-origin media personality among those killed in Kenya. Report on business-standard.com dated September 23, 2013
  3. ↑ About Ruhila's Rara’s
  4. ↑ Homeboyz Radio : Radio Africa Group Statement on Death of East FM Presenter Ruhila Adatia ( Memento from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) from September 23, 2013
  5. ↑ a b Catherine Mukel: Kenya: Relative Values - I Had My First Relationship in My 20s, It Was Approved By My Sisters and Friends . The Star. September 15, 2012. Retrieved September 23, 2013.
  6. ^ NDTV : Trends You are here: Home »All India» Kenya mall attack: Indian-origin media personality among those killed on September 23, 2013
  7. ↑ Ghafla! Kenya : East FM Radio Presenter And Ruhila Adatia's Close Friend Kamal Kaur Talks About Her Harrowing Ordeal At Westgate! ( Memento of September 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) of September 23, 2013
  8. ↑ Zachary Stieber, "Ruhila Adatia-Sood One of 68 Dead After Terror Attack at Kenya's Westgate Mall" Epoch Times, September 22, 2013
  9. ↑ BBC News - Ruhila Adatia-Sood
  10. ↑ Kenya standoff: The victims , BBC News . 21st September 2013. 
  11. ↑ Kiss TV's Gossip Girl weds
personal data
SURNAME Adatia-Sood, Ruhila
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian-Kenyan journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Kitisuru
DATE OF DEATH 21st September 2013
Place of death Nairobi