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Deputy Information Minister Abdishakur Adan explains the VOA ban in Bossasso. (Horseed)

Government suspends VOA service in Puntland

October 2, 2009 2:39 PM EDT

New York, October 2, 2009—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the suspension on Thursday of three Voice of America (VOA) reporters in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland in northeastern Somalia. Puntland’s Deputy Minister of Information Abdishakur Mire Adan issued a letter suspending all three VOA correspondents and any other VOA journalist from reporting in the…

Somali pirates in Hobyo, north of Mogadishu. (EPA)

A journalist in the hands of Somali pirates

October 1, 2009 11:30 AM EDT

Shadows of emerging skyscrapers in a neighborhood in Nairobi come alive as the sun glides down the western horizon. I am walking down one of the deserted streets in the city’s Eastleigh shantytown. Lately, Eastleigh has become a contradiction of sorts. While the roads remain as torn as ever and clean drinking water and other…

CPJ to honor five international journalists

September 23, 2009 9:07 AM EDT

New York, September 23, 2009—The Committee to Protect Journalists will honor courageous journalists from Somalia, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, and Azerbaijan with its 2009 International Press Freedom Awards at a ceremony in November. Mustafa Haji Abdinur of Somalia, Naziha Réjiba of Tunisia, Eynulla Fatullayev of Azerbaijan, and J.S. Tissainayagam of Sri Lanka have faced imprisonment, threats…

Mustafa Haji Abdinur, Somalia, Agence France-Presse

September 23, 2009 8:21 AM EDT

Awards 2009 |Announcement of the Awards | Eynulla Fatullayev | J.S. Tissainayagam | Naziha Réjiba | Anthony Lewis Mustafa Haji Abdinur is among the very small number of independent journalists still working amid devastating violence in Mogadishu. In 2009 alone, six Somali journalists were murdered or killed in crossfire. SIMBA As a correspondent for Agence…

Radio Horyaal director, jailed in Somaliland, should be freed

September 9, 2009 4:07 PM EDT

New York, September 9, 2009—Police should release Mohamed Osman, director of Radio Horyaal, who has been held without charge since his arrest on Saturday outside parliament in Hargeisa, capital of the breakaway republic of Somaliland, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

Somaliland cracks down on independent media

August 24, 2009 5:16 PM EDT

New York, August 24, 2009–The Committee to Protect Journalists called today for an end to an ongoing government crackdown on independent journalists in Somaliland.

Families of Somalia captives release statement

August 21, 2009 5:41 PM EDT

Ahead of the first anniversary on Sunday, August 23, of the kidnapping in Mogadishu of Canadian Amanda Lindhout and Australian Nigel Brennan we issued the following statement today on behalf of the families of the two journalists…

Somaliland government increases attacks on press

July 22, 2009 4:34 PM EDT

New York, July 22, 2009–The Committee to Protect Journalist condemns the government’s growing crackdown on the independent press in the northern breakaway republic of Somaliland as September presidential elections near.

Journalist beaten in Puntland courtroom

July 17, 2009 3:31 PM EDT

New York, July 17, 2009–The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the attack on reporter Aweys Sheikh Nur on Wednesday by security guards during a court session in Bosaso, in Puntland, a semi-autonomous region of Somalia.

Sixth Somali journalist killed this year

July 6, 2009 4:07 PM EDT

New York, July 6, 2009–The Committee to Protect journalists is saddened by the death of Radio IQK journalist Mohamud Mohamed Yusuf who was shot twice in the stomach on Saturday in the capital, Mogadishu. Yusuf, commonly known as “Ninile,” was hit by stray bullets after leaving the station in Afarta Jardin, northern Mogadishu, local journalists…