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Radio Simba presenter gunned down in Mogadishu

Published on 5 August 2011Read

Somalia

Presidential pardon

Website reporter pardoned and freed in Puntland

Published on 1 August 2011Read

Africa

Swedish journalists arrested in Ethiopia after leaving Somalia, Somali journalist threatened with extradition to Ethiopia

Reporters Without Borders condemns the apparent complicity between the Ethiopian authorities and those in Somalia’s semi-autonomous northeastern (...)

Published on 5 July 2011 Read

Somalia

Two journalists freed in Mogadishu, two others still held in north

Two journalists who were wrongfully arrested by the National Security Agency in Mogadishu on 27 March – Radio Shabelle manager Abdirashid Omar (...)

Published on 31 March 2011 Read

Somalia

Dismay at three-year jail sentence for Somaliland newspaper editor

Reporters Without Borders is “dismayed” by the three-year jail sentence and fine of 6 million Somaliland shillings (around 1,000 dollars) that a (...)

Published on 23 January 2011 Read

Somalia

NUSOJ annual report focuses on journalists’ precarious working conditions

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ), a Reporters Without Borders partner organization, has just published its annual report on the (...)

Published on 16 December 2010 Read

Somalia

Press Freedom Prize goes to Somali radio station Radio Shabelle

In partnership with the French retail chain FNAC, Reporters Without Borders is delighted to award its 2010 Press Freedom Prize to two symbols of (...)

Published on 10 December 2010 Read

Somalia

Puntland journalist freed after 86 days in jail for interviewing rebel leader

Reporters Without Borders welcomes yesterday’s release of radio Horseed Media FM director Abdifatah Jama Mire after 86 days of detention in (...)

Published on 9 November 2010 Read

Somalia

Attacks on Mogadishu radio stations leave journalists in untenable situation

Reporters Without Borders roundly condemns yesterday’s assaults by Islamist militias on two radio stations in Mogadishu. Radio HornAfrik was (...)

Published on 19 September 2010 Read

Somalia

Journalist is stabbed to death in Puntland

Reporters Without Borders today voiced its deep distress at the murder yesterday of Abdullahi Omar Gedi, aged 25, a journalist on Radio Daljir in (...)

Published on 1 September 2010 Read