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Anisa Abdiaziz Hussein, Abdullahi Abdulqadir Ahmed, and Abdirizak Abdullahi Adan

‘Alarming escalation’: At least 41 journalists targeted since March in Somalia

Kampala, Uganda, May 15, 2025 – Somali security personnel have arrested, assaulted, or harassed at least 41 private-media journalists since mid-March, in what local press rights groups have called a “painful experience” and an “alarming escalation” in attacks on the media. Most of these press freedom violations were connected to coverage of national security issues,…

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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”

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…

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