Kampala, Uganda: Police raided Uganda’s leading independent newspaper on Monday and disabled its printing press after it published a letter about a purported plot to stifle allegations President Yoweri Museveni is grooming his son for power, a senior editor said. Speculation is growing that Museveni, in office since 1986 and one of Africa’s longest serving leaders, is lining up [...]
Unidentified gunmen shot and killed Somali journalist working with state run radio Mogadishu late on Sunday afternoon, colleagues told media. Mohamed Ibrahim Raage (better known as Honest) was shot and killed by two men armed with pistols in front of his home at Dharkenley neighborhood in the capital, shortly after he returned back from his work. The [...]
During polling, challenges arose for both local and international media, and they have not subsided. For the foreign press, it is now unclear how get accreditation to report in the country. Local journalists are worried about the rise of self-censorship, and freedom of expression advocates are concerned by plans for vague regulations on hate speech. [...]
A famous Somali journalist Mohamed Ali Nuxurkey was killed while three other journalists were wounded in a car bombing that hit near Villa Somalia in the centre of Mogadishu today. The journalist Mohamed Ali Nuxurkey who was working with Radio Mustaqbal, a private owned radio in Mogadishu was one of several people sitting a cafeteria [...]
Nairobi, Kenya - A coalition of human rights groups and press freedom campaigners has accused the Somali government of seeking to curb media freedom by detaining a freelance journalist without charge for investigating allegations of rape by the security forces. Police arrested freelance journalist Abdiaziz Abdinur Ibrahim on January 10 after he interviewed a woman who [...]
Mohamed Mohamud Turyare was walking home from a Mogadishu mosque on Oct. 21 when two gunmen shot him in the stomach. Doctors were preparing to transfer the 22-year-old Radio Shabelle reporter out of the country for treatment when he died a week later. Somalia has long been unsafe for journalists but now it’s worse than [...]
Wariye Ibraahim Maxamed Aadan oo ka tirsan laanta afka Soomaaliga ee BBC-da ayaa maanta dib u helay xoriyadiisa, kadib muddo 10-cisho ah oo uu ku xirnaa Xabsiga dhexe ee magaalada Muqdisho. Sii deynta wariyahan ayaa timid kadib markii Saraakiil ka socotay BBC-da oo dhowaan soo gaaray Muqdisho ay kala hadleen Maxkamada ciidamada qalabka sida inay [...]
Somalia is one of the deadliest places to be a journalist. Yet many are endangering themselves through bad practice It’s been a terrible year for Somali journalists. Fifteen of them have been murdered in 2012 so far – mostly victims of targeted killings. That makes Somalia one of the deadliest places to be a journalist. [...]
Habeenimadii khamiista ayay aheyd markii uu dhacay qaraxyo xoogan oo gabi Ahaanba gilgilay magalada muqdisho ee caasimada dalka somaliya kaasoo ay ku Dhinteen 15 qof halka ay ku dhaawacmeen dad intaa kabadan markii ay labo qof oo Naftood haligayaal ah ay beegsadeen dad rayid ah oo fadhiyay maqaayad ku taalla Guriga Hooyooyinka. Dadka ku dhintay [...]
The killing of innocent Somali journalists is on the rise in many places within Somalia especially in Mogadishu while the reason and the killers both remain anonymous. Somalia has one of the most vibrant media Sectors in the Horn of Africa yet its one of the most dangerous places to work as a journalist. On [...]