Somalia

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders issued an urgent appeal to the international community for energetic measures towards the Somali government on behalf of the country’s journalists after the murder in Mogadishu of Bashir Nur Gedi, the head of the Shabelle press group on 19 October 2007. Gedi is the eighth journalist to be slain this […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 19 October 2007 CPJ press release: SOMALIA: Radio Shabelle manager assassinated New York, October 19, 2007 – The acting manager of the independent Somali station Radio Shabelle was assassinated outside his home in Mogadishu today by unknown gunmen, according to station employees and local journalists. Bashiir Noor Gedi was […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Abdullahi Abdi Farah, the manager of privately-owned Radio Simba, and Mohamed Farah, one of his journalists, were released late on 11 October 2007 after being held all day. Their station was allowed to resume broadcasting, Reporters Without Borders has learned from Omar Faruk Osman, the secretary-general of its partner organisation, the National Union […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has expressed its “astonishment” at “hostile statements” made by information minister, Madobe Numow Mohamed, towards its partner organisation in Somalia, the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ), on 3 and 6 October 2007. Madobe Numow Mohamed said in a letter on 3 October, addressed to all international and local non-governmental organizations, that […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF calls for the release of Abdullahi Ali Farah, the manager of the privately-owned, Mogadishu-based radio station Radio Simba, and Mohamed Farah, one of his journalists, who were arrested on 11 October 2007 after broadcasting an interview with the head of the military wing of the Islamic Courts. “The absolute power accorded to […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders calls for the release of reporter Ahmed Aadan Dhere, who was arrested on 27 September 2007 in the city of Berbera, in the west of the northern breakaway state of Somaliland, and has been held ever since at Berbera police headquarters. Dhere is the correspondent of “Haatuf”, a privately-owned daily […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the attempted murder on 24 September 2007 of privately-owned Radio Shabelle’s acting manager, Jafar Mohammed “Kukay”, the latest target of a wave of political killings that seems to be aimed at demonstrating that the transitional federal government is unable to guarantee security in the Somali capital. The […]

(WiPC/IFEX) – The Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN welcomes the release of Mohamed Hussein Jimale, correspondent for the news website Puntlandpost.com ( http://www.puntlandpost.com ) on 17 September 2007 following five days of detention. It would like to share the following statement issued by Somali-Speaking PEN: The Somali-speaking Centre of International PEN welcomes the […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is an 18 September 2007 CPJ press release: Police fire on Somalia’s Radio Shabelle New York, September 18, 2007 – CPJ condemns the attack by Somali security forces on the Radio Shabelle compound this morning. Forces opened fire on the building with staff inside, forcing the station off the air. According […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 17 September 2007 CPJ press release: Somalia: Shabelle radio network raided; 19 staffers detained New York, September 17, 2007 – Members of the Somali Transitional National Government security forces raided the Radio Shabelle office in the capital, Mogadishu, Saturday morning and detained 19 staff members. The security forces accused […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 14 September 2007 CPJ press release: Somali government detains Mogadishu reporter covering security sweep New York, September 14, 2007 – Police have detained a journalist who was reporting on a security operation undertaken by Somalia’s Ethiopian-backed government in the capital, Mogadishu, according to the National Union of Somali Journalists […]

(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is an IFJ media release: Campaign for Media Safety in Somalia Violence in Somalia has been escalating, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) says, and this has put enormous pressure on journalists reporting on the conflict for both Somali news organisations and international media. “Journalists themselves have become targets,” said IFJ […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders is very concerned about the safety of the members of its partner organisation in Somalia, the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ), after unidentified gunmen threatened to kill one of its leaders, Ali Moallim Isak on 3 September 2007. “Mogadishu’s chronic violent crime makes journalists an easy target,” the press […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 24 August 2007 CPJ press release: In Somalia, reporter killed in vehicle ambush New York, August 24, 2007 – A young reporter returning from a journalism training workshop in the Somali capital of Mogadishu was shot dead today in southwestern Somalia when clan militiamen ambushed his vehicle, according to […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 13 August 2007 CPJ press release: In Somalia, two prominent journalists assassinated hours apart New York, August 13, 2007 – Somalia’s U.S. and Ethiopian-backed government arrested two suspects on Sunday in the separate attacks that killed prominent journalists Ali Sharmarke and Mahad Ahmed Elmi of leading independent broadcaster HornAfrik […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has expressed horror at the murder of two well-known Somali journalists – Radio Capital Voice director Mahad Ahmed Elmi, shot dead on his way to work in Mogadishu, and Ali Iman Sharmarke, director of Horn Afrik, killed by a bomb soon afterwards on 11 August 2007. Six media workers have […]