A Somali radio journalist is recovering after being shot in the chest by two unknown assailants on Sunday evening, the latest in a series of armed attacks against journalists and media workers in the troubled East African state. Mohyadin Hasan Mohamed, head of news for the Shabelle Media Network, told the National Somali Union of […]

The director of a Somali radio station shut down two years ago by Al Shabab militants was killed outside his home in Mogadishu yesterday. Witnesses told Voice of America (VOA) that two unidentified men carrying pistols shot Abukar Hassan Kadaf early Tuesday evening as the journalist was returning home in the city’s southern Wadajir district. […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of publishers, editors and leading journalists, condemned the killing of the director of the Shabelle Media Network in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday, and called for an end to impunity for journalist killers in the war-torn country. Hassan Osman Abdi, 29, who was also known as […]

A total of 21 journalists were detained in the Somaliland region of Somalia on 14 January and later released, according to the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ). The police targeted journalists and a television broadcaster without a warrant. Authorities accused the journalists and the private television channel Horn Cable TV of supporting and promoting […]