Somalia

(CPJ/IFEX) -The following is a 14 July 2005 CPJ press release: SOMALIA: Puntland editor freed, newspaper remains suspended New York, July 14, 2005 – Editor Abdi Farah Nur has been released after more than two weeks of imprisonment in the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland, but his newspaper remains under government suspension and Farah fears […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 13 July 2005 CPJ press release: SOMALIA: Two Puntland journalists freed but harassment continues New York, July 13, 2005 – The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release of two radio journalists who were jailed for nearly two weeks in Bossasso, a city in the self-declared autonomous region of […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ press release: SOMALIA: Two journalists imprisoned in Puntland; radio station shuttered New York, July 5, 2005 – The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply troubled by the imprisonment of two radio journalists in Bossasso, a city in the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland. Sheekh Aduun, director of the […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has expressed disbelief at the obstinacy of the authorities in Somalia’s autonomous region of Puntland after the arrest of the editor of a privately-owned weekly. The organisation urged President Abdullalhi Yusuf Ahmed to quickly order the release of “Shacab” editor Abdi Farah Nur, arrested by police on the evening of 19 June […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 20 June 2005 CPJ press release: SOMALIA: Puntland editor jailed after resuming publication New York, June 20, 2005 – Authorities in the autonomous Puntland region of northeast Somalia arrested Abdi Farah Nur, editor of the weekly Shacab (Voice of the People), after the newspaper resumed publication yesterday in defiance […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 6 June 2005 CPJ press release: SOMALIA: Journalist shot dead covering protest New York, June 6, 2005 -The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the killing of radio journalist Duniya Muhyadin Nur, who was shot to death on Sunday while covering a protest in Afgoye, some 18.6 miles (30 km) […]

(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is an IFJ media release: IFJ Rebukes Somalia Over Intimidation of Journalists The International Federation of Journalists, the world’s largest journalists’ organisation, today protested over a series of incidents of intimidation against journalists in Somalia and called for wider protection for media in the country. On 24 May, the Puntland Intelligence […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ press release: SOMALIA: Journalist shot and wounded in Mogadishu New York, May 26, 2005 – Veteran journalist Abdallah Nurdin Ahmad was wounded Tuesday night in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, when an unidentified gunman fired three times at close range, according to CPJ sources. Nurdin, a senior producer at […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 6 May 2005 CPJ press release: SOMALIA: Puntland shutters critical newspaper New York, May 6, 2005 – Puntland authorities have ordered the immediate closing of the weekly newspaper Shacab for allegedly inciting violence, according to CPJ sources. The decree, issued after a cabinet meeting on Thursday, cited the government’s […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 3 May 2005 CPJ letter to the president of Puntland, General Adde Muse Hirsi: May 3, 2005 Gen. Adde Muse Hirsi President, Puntland Via E-mail Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned about attacks on press freedom in the autonomous Puntland region of northeast Somalia, of […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has accused the breakaway state of Somaliland’s government of abusing its authority by ordering the dismissal and arrest of two part-time employees of the state-owned Radio Hargeisa station, on the grounds that they also worked for a new privately-owned radio station broadcasting from London. “The two Radio Hargeisa employees must be cleared […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ press release: SOMALIA: CPJ writes to president about detained journalist New York, March 21, 2005 – The Committee to Protect Journalists today wrote to Somalia’s president, Col. Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, urging him to investigate the continuing detention of Abdirisak Ahmed Absuge by forces loyal to faction leader Mohamed […]

(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is an IFJ press release: IFJ Warns of New Targeting Threat as BBC Reporter is Killed in Somalia The shooting of a British journalist working for the BBC today by unidentified gunmen outside her hotel in the capital of Somalia has the hallmarks of a targeted attack that threatens all media […]

(RSF/IFEX) – The head of security for Middle Shabelle region, who is also the brother of local chief Mohamed Omar Habeb, authorised journalist Abdiqani Sheik Mohamed to return to work on 3 February 2005, the local press freedom group Somali Journalists Network (SOJON) told RSF. The journalist, formerly of the privately-owned station Radio Banadir, had […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has written to Somalia’s new prime minister, Ali Mohammed Geedi, asking him to ensure that radio reporter Abdiqani Sheik Mohamed be allowed to return and work in the Middle Shabelle region, where local authorities physically attacked him and banned him from working in September 2004. The organisation explained in the letter that […]

(RSF/IFEX) – On 24 October 2004, Zamzam Abdullahi Abdi, a member of the Somalia Women Journalists Association’s (Sowja) governing board, was abducted and detained overnight by unidentified armed individuals in Mogadishu before being released on 25 October. “We welcome the fact that Abdi was released safe and sound, but her abduction reinforces the urgent need […]