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TV Journalist's killing highlights professional risks to journalism in Somalia

ASOJ.ORG - Associated Somali Journalists (ASOJ) is saddened by and condemns in the strongest terms the death of journalist Ahmed Mohamed Shukur, a reporter for Somali National Television (SNTV), who was killed today at around 11:30am, in a landmine blast in the Basro neighbourhood of Bal'ad district.

Somaliland detains BBC Media Action staff while Somali police spokesman threatens reporters

ASOJ.ORG - Somaliland detains BBC Media Action staff while Somali police spokesman threatens reporters covering police operations in Mogadishu. Associated Somali Journalists (ASOJ) and the Somali Media Association (SOMA) call for Somaliland authorities to halt the threats and harassment against British…

SOMALIA:Drop trumped up charges and stop persecuting journalists under repressive criminal law, says ASOJ

The Associated Somali Journalists ASOJ condemns the crude assault on media freedom by authorities in Somaliland, who this week, brought contradictory and unsubstantiated criminal charges against journalists Mohamed Abdi Mohamed of MM Somali TV, Abdijabar Mohamed Hussein of HornCable TV and Abdirahman…

Court begins trial of a police officer who shot and seriously injured journalist in Mogadishu.

Associated Somali Journalists (ASOJ) welcomes the beginning of the military court hearing of a trial against a police officer who shot and seriously injured Goobjoog camera-journalist and SJS member, Sharma'arke Abdinur Wehliye, in March 2021 in Mogadishu. On the evening of 20 March, 2021, the young…

Somalia's first all-women media team puts women journalists in control of the news agenda

ASOJ.ORG - Somalia's first-ever all-women media unit launches today, providing a space where women media professionals can work with real decision-making authority and fully free from harassment.

Why press freedom and end to FGM are related in Somalia.

ASOJ.ORG - Press freedom and female genital mutilation (FGM) may be unrelated issues around the world but in Somalia, stakeholders think achievement of one will depend on the other. On Sunday, as the world marked the International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM, the two issues converged in Mogadishu,…

Somali Media Face Arrests, Harassment. in election year

ASOJ.ORG - With Somalia's delayed elections pushed back again, the country's media are digging in for what has already been a lengthy and at times difficult election period. Journalists reporting on politics and opposition candidates have been assaulted and detained, and a state leader threatened…

Somaliland: Two journalists survive attack in Hargeisa, TV reporter detained in Borame.

Associated Somali Journalists ASOJ strongly condemn and express their concern about the violent attack and the detention against independent journalists in Somaliland. On 14 March, Somaliland police in Borame, Awdal region, detained Horn Cable TV reporter, Imran Hussein Adan, a day after he covered…

Somalia:increasingly target journalists report

ASOJ.ORG - Somalia's journalists may be operating in one of Africa's most dangerous zones with state actors and militants targeting them because of their work, a new report shows. A report released Wednesday by the Associated Somali Journalists (ASOJ) accuses government officials, both at federal…

Somalia Journalists unlawful detention and targeted assassinations

ASOJ.ORG - In marking International Human Rights Day 2021, the ASSOCIATED SOMALI JOURNALISTS ASOJ is deeply alarmed that human rights violations in the country remain deeply widespread and pervasive. This is particularly glaring when observing that media freedoms, including that most central of other…

Death and detention major threats to media freedom in Somalia

ASOJ.ORG - Two journalists were killed and another 33 were detained while 133 cases of intimidation were logged in Somalia during 2020, the Associated Somali Journalists (ASOJ) reports in its State of Media Freedom Report 2021. Released on World Press Freedom Day 2021, the report titled Between a Rock…

Journalists barred from covering Somali leaders' meeting

ASOJ.ORG - The Associated Somali Journalists is deeply concerned that journalists were today barred from covering the meeting of the leaders of the Federal Government of Somalia and Federal Member States (FMSs) as well as the Governor and Mayor of Mogadishu.

Somalia: ASOJ strongly condemns the wounding of a journalist & arresting another.

ASOJ.ORG - Associated Somali Journalists (ASOJ) is deeply concerned about the escalating violence against Somali journalists in the Gedo region, particularly in Beled Hawo district on the Somali-Kenyan border where a journalist was injured by security forces and another was arbitrarily imprisoned by…

Puntland Frees Independent Journalist after Presidential Pardon

ASOJ.ORG - The Associated Somali Journalists ASOJ welcomes the release of independent journalist Kilwe Adan Farah, who was today pardoned by Puntland President Said Abdullahi Deni. Kilwe Adan Farah had on, 17 March 2021, been sentenced to three years in jail by the Military High Court of Puntland, following…

COVID-19 guidance for journalists and media houses in Somalia

ASOJ.ORG - Associated Somali Journalists has today published New guidance (advices) setting out how journalists and media houses in Somalia can meet their media duties as they navigate the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.

ASOJ condemns journalist jailed in Mogadishu over social media posts

ASOJ.ORG - Associated Somali Journalists (ASOJ) strongly condemns the arrest of journalist Abdiaziz Ahmed Gurbiye who was also the Deputy Director of Goobjoog Media Group on Tuesday morning April 14, 2020, and calls for his immediate and unconditional release.

Somalia:security forces arrested 38 journalists, while 37 were beaten, shot at or threatened at gunpoint

Somalia detained record number of journalists in 2019: Report. State security forces arrested 38 journalists, while 37 were beaten, shot at or threatened at gunpoint, report says.

ASOJ demands the release of Somali journalist arrested over Facebook posts.

The Associated Somali Journalists (ASOJ) has called for the immediate and unconditional release of a journalist Ali Aden Mumin arrested in Mogadishu after posting comments on his Facebook account.

Somalia:ASOJ condemns the murder of veteran journalist

The Associated Somali Journalists (ASOJ) condemns the murder of veteran journalist and other innocent people by coordinated double suicide bombings in Mogadishu.

ASOJ demands the release of Somali journalist detained in Djibouti

ASOJ.ORG - Associated Somali Journalists (ASOJ) condemns the arbitrary incarceration of a Somali journalist, Roble Mohamed Dirir, who is currently in the notorious Gabood prison in Djibouti city.

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