Human Rights

Amid accountability concerns, UK grants new funding to UNSOS for Somali forces

BY - MOHAMED HUSSEIN

'We'll rather die than pay', SJS stands firm against extortion demands

BY - ABDIRAHMAN MOHAMED

A Year into the Sudan Conflict, an Urgent Call to Address One of the World's Gravest Crisis

Statement by USAID Administrator, Samantha Power -

SJS denounces the acts of sabotage and invasion of privacy directed towards its bank accounts

MOGADISHU, Somalia, 14 April 2024 – The Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) condemns the acts of sabotage and breaches of privacy targeted at its bank accounts, aimed at hindering the organisation's operations.

193 Ethiopian, Somali migrants and traffickers arrested in Somaliland while en route to Yemen

HARGEISA (HORN OBSERVER) – Somaliland's coastal guard authorities made a significant breakthrough on Sunday, announcing the interception and detention of a group of 193 migrants and traffickers along the eastern coast of the Sanaag region on the Red Sea.

SJS: Free journalist Mohamud Abdirashid Abdi arbitrarily detained in Luuq district, Gedo

MOGADISHU, Somalia 5 April, 2024 – The Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) calls for the immediate and unconditional freedom of journalist Mohamud Abdirashid Abdi who is detained in Luuq district of Gedo region since 1 April 2024.

Root Out The Decay: Bribery and Corruption in Somali Parliament

By - ABDALLE MUMIN*

HRW: Somalia's Constitutional Proposals Put Children at Risk

(Nairobi) – Somalia's parliament should reject any proposed constitutional amendments that would weaken rights protections for children, Human Rights Watch said today.

Femicide in Somalia: Another young woman murdered

MOGADISHU (KAAB TV) – In a devastating turn of events, Wanla Weyn district, located in the Lower Shabelle region of Somalia, mourns yet another loss as a young woman falls victim to femicide.

Two years on: The unsolved assassination of Amina Mohamed Abdi

BELEDWEYNE, Somalia (HORN OBSERVER) – Today marks the solemn commemoration of the second anniversary of the tragic assassination of Amina Mohamed Abdi, a revered Somali woman politician whose life was cut short in a cowardly act of violence on March 23, 2022, while she campaigned for re-election to…

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Role of Somalia and International Media on humanitarian and peace building

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