When a car bomb exploded at a security checkpoint near the Somali national parliament in Mogadishu in January, killing four and wounding 10 others, freelance journalist Mohamed Ibrahim Bulbul rushed to the scene to report the news. As police blocked off the area and emergency services worked to sort through the wreckage, a crowd of […]

Somali journalist Ali Ahmed Abdi was shot dead by unidentified assailants on Sunday evening, according to AP.  He was immediately taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The 24-year-old reporter was walking home in Gasoor village when he was approached by two men, who shot him three times in the head. Abdi was a […]

On the eve of World Press Freedom Day, a radio reporter became the sixth Somali journalist to be killed in the last sixth months and the fifth in 2012 when he was assassinated by unknown gunmen in Galkayo, Puntland. The International Press Institute (IPI) today vigorously condemned Wednesday’s attack on Farhan Jeemis Abdulle in Galkayo […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) on Friday reiterated its calls for Somali authorities to ensure that journalist murders are thoroughly investigated and prosecuted after the sixth journalist this year was reportedly murdered in Mogadishu. According to the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ), Radio Shabelle journalist Ahmed Addow Anshur, 25, was shot by armed men […]