Afriques en Lutte

Shabelle Media Network journalists on hunger strike to protest imprisonment, charges

National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) — 2014-10-15T03:07:00Z

Four journalists of the Shabelle Media Network, who are currently detained, started a hunger strike on 29 September 2014 to demand their freedom and for the charges levelled against them to be dropped. The journalists are also protesting the conditions of their detention.
Abdimalik Yusuf, chairman of Shabelle Media Network, Mohamud Mohamed Dahir (Arab), director of SkyFM, Ahmed Abdi Hassan, deputy editor of Radio Shabelle, and Mohamed Bashir Hashi, editor of Radio Shabelle are currently (…)

- Somalie / Liberté de la presse

2013 : A dark and deadly year for media workers in Somalia

National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) — 2014-01-15T04:35:00Z

After one of the worst years on record for the killing of journalists, the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) renewed its call for the Federal Government of Somalia and other regional governments to take seriously their responsibility to investigate media killings and end attacks on the media.
NUSOJ recorded 7 media workers, including 6 journalists who were cold-bloodedly murdered from 18 January to 26 October 2013. All media victims were working for broadcast media. Mogadishu (…)

- Somalie / Liberté de la presse

Independent media network violently raided by authorities in Somalia

National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) — 2013-11-13T04:11:00Z

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) condemns the crackdown and ransacking of Shabelle Media Network, the leading independent media network in Somalia, by the security forces of the Federal Government of Somalia, and considers it a serious threat to media freedom and freedom of expression in Somalia.
On the morning of Saturday, 26 October, security personnel cordoned off the building hosting Radio Shabelle and SkyFM, both part of Shabelle Media Network. The police restricted (…)

- Somalie / Liberté de la presse

Somalie : Attacks on the press up in 2011

National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) — 2012-02-06T05:18:00Z

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) today unveiled its Annual Report on the state of press freedom. The report is the result of extensive and systematic monitoring and documentation of incidents of attacks on journalists and media organisations in Somalia's south-central regions, and in territories controlled by Puntland and Somaliland.
The report, entitled "Lives and Rights of Journalists Under Threat", records that 4 journalists were murdered, 7 journalists wounded, 19 (…)

- Somalie / Liberté de la presse

Somalie : NUSOJ annual review of crimes against journalists

National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) — 2012-01-26T04:19:00Z

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) declares today that the year 2011 was characterized by the worst possible perilous conditions for journalists operating in Somalia, as they were deliberately singled out for cruel and unjust treatment.
The year was stained with the blood of journalists and was worse than 2010 regarding all aspects of press freedom and the abusive quashing of the fundamental rights of journalists. Media professionals were the victims of the completely (…)

- Somalie / Liberté de la presse

Somalie : Leading journalist murdered in Mogadishu

National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) — 2012-01-16T04:07:00Z

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) is horrified to learn that an armed man in the military uniform of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) murdered a leading broadcast journalist, Abdisalan Sheik Hassan, in Mogadishu on 18 December 2011.
The alleged killer, who was armed with an AK-47, shot Hassan, widely known as "Hiis", in the head in the Hamar Jajab district at around 4:30 p.m. He was working as a Mogadishu-based stringer for Horn Cable TV, as well as a presenter of (…)

- Somalie / Répression, Liberté de la presse

Journalists arrested in Mogadishu clampdown

National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) — 2011-12-17T04:17:00Z

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) condemns the widespread clampdown by security forces of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia that has resulted in the arrest and detention of three radio journalists in Mogadishu.
On the evening of 2 December 2011, TFG police in Karan district, in the northern part of Mogadishu, arrested two journalists who work for the privately-owned Radio Banadir radio station. The journalists, Salad Tifow Hassan and Qadar Hussein Ahmed, a (…)

- Somalie / Liberté de la presse, Droit humain

Somalie : Puntland authorities suspend two TV networks

National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) — 2011-12-13T03:22:00Z

National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) wishes to protest against the decision of the Puntland government to suspend two private television networks from operating.
The Puntland President, Abdirahman Mohamud Farole, officially announced the suspension of Universal TV and Somali Channel TV in the regions controlled by his government, when he addressed the 27th session of the Puntland parliament on 30 October. He accused the two television networks of being an obstacle to the security (…)

- Somalie / Liberté de la presse

NUSOJ demands end to assaults on journalist, media freedoms in Somaliland

National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) — 2011-11-06T03:32:00Z

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) strongly condemns the ongoing brutalities against independent journalists in Somaliland.
Journalist Mohamed Abdi Kahin, nicknamed "Boosh", who works for the online news website Ramaasnews and the privately-owned television station Royal TV, was brutally beaten on 27 October 2011 by Somaliland police in the city of Hargeisa after the police accused him of taking pictures of "women protesting."
On 19 September, police in Hargeisa beat up and (…)

- Somalie / Liberté de la presse, Droit humain

Somalie : Editor found guilty of defaming transport minister

National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) — 2011-05-28T02:58:00Z

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) expresses its deepest concern over continuing legal cases against journalists and media outlets in Somalia after a regional court ruled against an editor-in-chief of a daily newspaper over a defamation charge.
On 30 April 2011, Hargeisa Regional Court announced its verdict in a defamation case filed by Somaliland Civil Aviation and Air Transport Minister Mohamed Hashi Abdi in January 2011 against the editor-in-chief of "Saxafi" newspaper, (…)

- Somalie / Liberté de la presse