Berbera Archives - Committee to Protect Journalists

Muse Bihi Abdi speaks to the media after casting his vote in the presidential election in Hargeisa, in the semi-autonomous region of Somaliland, in Somalia on November 13, 2017. As Somaliland's new president, Muse should seize the opportunity to make press freedom a priority for his administration, CPJ said today. (AP/Barkhad Kaariye/File)

Somaliland journalists detained, accused of “false news”

December 20, 2017 2:25 PM EST

Nairobi, December 20, 2017 – Somaliland authorities should immediately release Ahmed Sa’ed and Abdirahman Mohamed Ege, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Police on December 18 arrested the Somali journalists on allegations of publishing false news about the mayor of Berbera, a port city in the semi-autonomous region of Somaliland, according to Guleid Ahmed…