Journalist Yunis Dekow weds Naima at Somali traditional ceremony in Mombasa
March, 26 2022 – Mombasa, Kenya –
Writer, journalist, broadcaster and media strategist Yunis Dekow on Saturday tied the knot in Mombasa to his long-time patner and photojournalist, Naima Abdi.
In an event attended by hundreds, Yunis and Naima were ceremoniously jointed at the hip.
“It’s a great feeling to be married to the love of your life. I look forward to the experience of completing your faith…the ups and the downs of this phase and what it will bring along,” Yunis said after the Islamic Nikkah ceremony, beaming with ecstacy after the event at KPA Sports Club Mbaraki.
The Nikah is a religious ceremony for a Muslim couple to be legally wed under Islamic law.
It’s both a tradition prophet of Mohamed (SAW) and centuries old Somali traditional custom that makes make the event the only permissible way that a man and woman can be married.
The ceremony makes the wedding official because in the Islamic tradition it’s not permissible for a couple to be intimate without a Nikah.
The Nikah legitimizes the relationship in front of relatives and Allah, forming a union rooted in deep love.
Dekow is a senior Kenyan broadcast journalist and a communications strategist currently based in Mogadishu, Somalia..
Since July 2020, he has been a press officer attached to the Africa Union, United Nations, Information Support Team which Implements the media/ strategic communications agenda for AMISOM, UNSOS and UNSOM in Somalia.
He previously worked with CBA TV both as the Chief Content Officer and Service Editor, leading teams in Hargeisa and Nairobi as required in the production of output, ensuring the material produced is lively, interesting and of relevance to the target area.
CBA TV is Somalia and Somaliland’s first ever English news network broadcasting from Hargeisa, Somaliland.