Farhan Jeemis Abdulle
Two unidentified gunmen shot and killed Farhan Jeemis Abdulle as he walked home from work in Galkayo, a town in the semi-autonomous Somali region of Puntland, at around 8 p.m. on May 2, 2012, local journalists told CPJ. The assailants shot him three times in the back and once in the hand, those journalists said….
Abdullahi Omar Gedi
Gedi, 25, a studio technician and part-time reporter for Radio Daljir, was stabbed in the Galkayo district of Somalia’s semi-autonomous region of Puntland, according to local journalists. Shortly after leaving work to meet a friend that evening, Gedi was stabbed several times by multiple, unidentified assailants, the station reported. He died of chest and leg…
Mohammed Abdullahi Khalif
Khalif, a contributor to the private radio station Voice of Peace in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, was killed by crossfire while covering an army raid on an illegal gun market. Khalif died from a bullet to the chest as soldiers were raiding the dealership to recover an assault rifle allegedly stolen from the army,…
Abdulkadir Mahad Moallim Kaskey
Kaskey, a correspondent for private Radio Banadir, was shot in the southwestern city of Bardera while returning from a journalism training workshop in Mogadishu, according to the National Union of Somali Journalists and local journalist Mohamed Gaarane. Kaskey died of a single bullet to the chest when local clan gunmen opened fired on a Toyota…
Somaliland bans operations of privately owned newspaper
New York, June 21, 2018–Authorities in the breakaway state of Somaliland should immediately lift a ban on the operations of Waaberi newspaper, a privately owned daily, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. A Hargeisa regional court issued an order suspending the newspaper on June 19 on allegations of improper registration, according to a statement…
Somaliland arrests journalists, bans TV stations
Nairobi, June 1, 2018–Authorities in the breakaway region of Somaliland should desist from detaining and harassing journalists covering a conflict with Puntland and lift an operations ban on two television stations, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
Somaliland journalists sentenced to two years in prison on propaganda charges
Nairobi, January 08, 2017–A Somaliland regional court yesterday sentenced journalists Mohamed Abdilaahi Dabshid and Ahmed Dirie Liltire, to two years of prison on charges of conducting propaganda against the state, bringing Somaliland into contempt and “bringing the flag or national emblem of a foreign state” into contempt, according to a statement by the Human Rights…
Somali journalist dies after suicide bomber targets café
Nairobi, September 14–Somali broadcast journalist Abdullahi Osman Moalim died yesterday from injuries sustained on September 10 when a suicide bomber attacked a café in Beldweyne where members of the press gather, Somalia’s Minister of Information, Abdirahman Omar Osman, and the journalist’s colleagues, told CPJ.
Broken promises
3. Critical journalists silenced by threats of arrest or violence Harassment of the press from official quarters does not begin or end with the passage of troublesome legislation. Journalists say they are routinely threatened, intimidated, and even attacked, and that government authorities are the culprit more often than not.