It is never an easy time to be a journalist in Somalia. But the failure of the Somali government to improve security, including for the media, and increasingly authoritarian moves against the press in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland are not helping, as the recent deaths of two Mogadishu-based journalists show. In Puntland, a ban […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) condemns the murder of Somali television journalist Liban Abdullahi Farah—the sixth journalist to be killed in the east African country this year—and urges Somali authorities to take the prompt and necessary steps to bring the crime’s perpetrators to justice. According to IPI sources, Farah was shot four to six times […]

A journalist working for a radio station in Somalia was hit by stray bullets this week – the second such incident in a month – and the premises of a newspaper were struck by artillery shells during heavy fighting, according to reports. Two journalists who were detained by security forces of the transitional government last […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed concern over Somalia’s detention of an Al Jazeera English correspondent and two cameramen, even as it welcomed the release of the editor-in-chief of one of Somalia’s oldest daily newspapers who was detained on Saturday. Officers of Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) arrested Al Jazeera English correspondent […]