It is never an easy time to be a journalist in Somalia. But the failure of the Somali government to improve security, including for the media, and increasingly authoritarian moves against the press in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland are not helping, as the recent deaths of two Mogadishu-based journalists show. In Puntland, a ban […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) condemns the murder of Somali television journalist Liban Abdullahi Farah—the sixth journalist to be killed in the east African country this year—and urges Somali authorities to take the prompt and necessary steps to bring the crime’s perpetrators to justice. According to IPI sources, Farah was shot four to six times […]

A journalist working for a radio station in Somalia was hit by stray bullets this week – the second such incident in a month – and the premises of a newspaper were struck by artillery shells during heavy fighting, according to reports. Two journalists who were detained by security forces of the transitional government last […]

The body of a radio journalist was discovered on Tuesday in western Tanzania, bringing to two the number of reporters killed in the East African country in the past six months, and since IPI started tracking journalist deaths in 1997. Issa Ngumba, 45, was found hanging in a forest by Kakonko town, near the western […]