Press Freedom

Farmaajo achievement: Civilian killings, Qalbi-Dhagah's extradition and war on media

MOGADISHU (HORN OBSERVER) On Saturday, Somali president Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo addressed the joint session of the seventh Sitting of the Somali Federal Parliament's both chambers (Upper House and Lower House).

Somaliland releases freelance journalist on pardon

MOGADISHU, Somalia June 6, 2020- Somali Media Association (SOMA) warmly welcomes the decision by the Somaliland authorities to release journalist Abdimalik Muse Oldon from the jail in Hargeisa today on Saturday 6 June, 2020.

Freelance journalist Oldon is freed after spending one year and 49 days in Somaliland jail

MOGADISHU, Somalia 06 June 2020- Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) welcomes the release of journalist Abdimalik Muse Oldon from the jail in Hargeisa on Saturday 6 June, 2020 after spending one year and 49 days in prison.

SJS says, "Independent media and journalists should be allowed to cover Somali Parliament's Joint Session"

MOGADISHU, Somalia – Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) calls for the Somali Federal Parliament to reverse its decision to ban journalists from independent media from covering the Joint Session of the Federal Parliament scheduled on Saturday 6 June, 2020.

SOMA is concerned about the decision to an independent media coverage during Saturday's Parliament Session

MOGADISHU, Somalia 05 June 2020 – Somali Media Association (SOMA) is concerned by the decision to ban independent media houses from Somali Parliament's Both Houses coverage ahead of tomorrow's 7th Sitting of the Parliament.

JOINT STATEMENT: Phone of a radio editor held incommunicado accessed

MOGADISHU, Somalia, 26 May, 2020 – We, Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS), Somali Media Association (SOMA) and Somali Independent Media Houses Association (SIMHA) express our grave concern by the use of detained Radio Hiigsi editor, Mohamed Abduwahaab Nuur Abuuja's phone number to register with…

Ahead of general elections, Somalia's AG threatens media and journalists with dire consequences

MOGADISHU (HORN OBSERVER) Somalia's Attorney General (AG) Sulayman Mohamed Mohamud has been threatening media and journalists trying to report the abuses and human rights violations committed by the Somali police and state officials ahead of the country's general elections later in the year.

Somali media fraternity concerned by intimidation and threats by the Somali police to deny journalists' justice

MOGADISHU, Somalia 22 May, 2020- Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) and Somali Media Association (SOMA) jointly condemn the physical assault against SBC TV journalist, Abdullahi Mohamed Sheikh on Thursday by Hamar Jajab police commissioner and we express our concern by the measures to block the journalists…

CPJ: Ethiopian police ignore court orders to free journalists held since March

Nairobi, May 22, 2020 -- Ethiopian police should immediately and unconditionally free journalists Dessu Dulla and Wako Nole and media worker Ismael Abdulrzaq, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

SOMA condemns physical assault on SBC TV & Radio journalist in Mogadishu

MOGADISHU, Somalia 21 May, 2020- Somali Media Association (SOMA) condemns in the strongest terms possible the assault against SBC TV & Radio journalist Abdullahi Mohamed Sheikhdon by a senior police officer while covering a COVID-19 related incident in Mogadishu's Hamar-jajab district.