The International Press Institute (IPI) today urged authorities in Somalia to conduct a swift and comprehensive investigation into the killing of journalist Mohamed Ibrahim Rageh. AFP reported that unidentified assailants fired lethal shots at Rageh as he returned home after work on Sunday, April 21 in Mogadishu. Rageh, a journalist with Somali National Television and […]

The International Press Institute condemned the prison sentence handed to a Somali journalist after he investigated a rape case allegedly involving Somali security forces, and called for the reporter to be freed immediately. On Tuesday, Feb. 5, Abdiaziz Abdinur Ibrahim was sentenced to one year in prison for “false reporting” and for “offending the reputation […]

Somali journalist Mohamed Mohamoud Tuuryare died yesterday, one week after gunmen shot him while he was on his way home from running an errand, the National Union of Somali Journalists and other news reports said. Tuuryare – 23 or 25 years old, depending on reports – was pronounced dead at Madina Hospital, where he was […]

Security agents in Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region shut down a popular radio station in Bosaso on Saturday morning, according to news reports and local journalists. The authorities accused the station of broadcasting programs that threaten Puntland’s security, but didn’t provide any evidence, according to Mohamed Ibrahim of the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ). Horseed […]