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Somalia: Police confiscate and delete footage from journalists' cameras, detain one in Mogadishu

MOGADISHU, Somalia (HORN OBSERVER) - Somalia's police on Wednesday detained a senior TV journalist Ahmed Abdi Adawe in Mogadishu while seven other journalists were their equipment confiscated as the police deleted footage files from the journalists' cameras following a deadly car bomb near the…

FESOJ is worried about the deteriorating situation of press freedom in Somalia

Press Statement: Mogadishu, Monday , January 6, 2020: Federation of Somali Journalists (FESOJ) is worried about the deteriorating situation of the press freedom in Somalia and the appalling working conditions of the Somali journalists.

State of the Press Freedom report in Somalia in 2019

MOGADISHU, Somalia, 06 January, 2020 – As 2019 ends, multiple actors continue to target Somalia media and its professionals through continued attacks, arbitrary arrests, death threats, and obstruction of access to information – all representing a vital constitutional right that citizens were meant…

Somalia: Media law amendment seeks restrictions on free press, gag social media

MOGADISHU, Somalia, (HORN OBSERVER) – Debate on the Somalia Media Law amendment has kicked off at the country's Upper House (Senate) on Tuesday as lawmakers firmly opposed new sections of the law that seek to impose restrictions on the free press and censorship against social media.

Somaliland court lifts one-year ban on local newspaper as press advocate welcomes the decision

HARGEISA (Horn Observer) Somaliland Supreme Court has lifted the one-year ban from the independent Foore newspaper in Hargeisa on Wednesday December 25 following a prolonged appeal, the paper's editor and the Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) confirmed.

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