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 […]

A police school located in the northern Mogadishu district of Abdiasis was bombed on Tuesday during a press conference held by Al Shabab, a Somali Islamist insurgent group linked to Al Qaeda. Eight journalists were wounded, four of whom were admitted to Medina Hospital, according to Omar Faruk Osman, the Secretary General of the National […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on the Somali government to investigate the death of award-winning radio journalist Yusuf Ahmed Abukar, who was killed by a car bomb on Saturday. The 27-year-old reporter was driving through Mogadishu when a bomb planted underneath the front seat of his car exploded at 7:40 a.m., according to […]