Verbal, online or physical attack: Verbal attack or intimidation by public (non online)
Journalists in Somaliland, a break-away region of Somalia, were told by the Vice President Abdirahman Abdullahi Seylici that anyone who reported a case of coronavirus before it was officially announced by the government was a “national criminal”. He also ordered media not to cover the coronavirus crisis “negatively” and to impart “government’s messaging only.”