In 1991, CNN took a bold step when it took  cameras to Teferi Ber refugee camp in Ethiopia, near the Somalia border, to film a series on the famine that everyone expected to happen that summer. At the time, Will King, CNN senior international editor, told the Los Angeles Times that he hoped the information […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) joins the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) in condemning the continued harassment and censorship of Somali radio stations by the Islamist insurgent group Al-Shabaab. The militant group has reportedly imposed severe restrictions over local station Radio Jowhar, which is located in the middle Shabelle region. Jowhar is a former […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the recent attacks on two radio stations, the detention of a journalist, and the ongoing trials against at least eight others in Eastern Africa. Local Somali radio stations Codka Hiiraan and Dhusamareb were seized on 22 June, and the editor of the latter was detained briefly on the […]

Radio technician Abdullahi Omar Gedi was killed yesterday in the Garsoor area of Galkayo in Puntland – a semi-autonomous region of Somalia, according to news reports. Gedi, 25, was coming from work at Radio Daljir when he was attacked and stabbed six times, National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) Puntland Coordinator Burhan Ahmed Dahir told […]