Somali radio journalist Ali Yusuf Adan was kidnapped on 21 February by Al Shabab militia soldiers after filing two reports on executions by the ultra-conservative militants. Ali Yusuf Adan, 47, who worked for the private broadcaster Radio Somaliweyn in the west of the country, was detained 100 km northwest of the capital, Mogadishu, and taken […]

Somali gunmen have released two foreign freelance journalists who were taken hostage in Mogadishu over fifteen months ago. Australian photojournalist Nigel Brennan and Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout were kidnapped outside Mogadishu by unknown gunmen when they were traveling to research a story on the internally-displaced refugees in Somalia, Lindhout confirmed to Canadian TV. She had […]

Two journalists have been shot at and wounded in the last two days in what continues to be a hostile environment for journalists, according to the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ). Voice of America (VOA) reporter Mohammed Yasin Isak was shot in the shoulder Tuesday evening at around 8 p.m. while returning to his […]

Al-Shabab militants in the Somali town of Baidoa yesterday shut down privately-owned Radio Warsan, and took the station’s director and news editor into custody. According to the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ), al-Shabab forces in Baidoa entered the station’s premises on 30 September 2009 at 4 P.M, and demanded that the FM station stop […]