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Muna Ibrahim Dakhtar: Setting a Leading Example for Somali Women Journalists

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) is horrified to learn that an armed man in the military uniform of the Transitional Federal (...)

Violence has erupted in a city at the centre of dispute between Somalia’s semi-autonomous Somaliland & Puntland regions.

The regional media regulatory body of Ethiopia's Somali region suspends the operations of 15 foreign media houses and revokes the accreditation of its workers, in what rights groups say is an attempt to silence independent media.

An overview of the media in Somaliland, as well as links to broadcasters and newspapers.

October 2022 in Africa: A free expression roundup produced by IFEX’s regional editor Reyhana Masters, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.

Together with 6 other organisations defending media freedom and journalists’ rights, the IFJ has made an appeal to Somaliland President urging him to release journalists Mohamed Abdi Mohamed of MM Somali TV and Abdijabar Mohamed Hussein of HornCable TV.

A regional court in Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Somaliland, convicted journalists Mohamed Abdi Ilig and Abdijabar Mohamed Hussein of spreading false news. The pair had been part of a group of journalists arrested while reporting on a prison riot.

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Fourteen journalists reporting on a prison riot in Hargeisa, in Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Somaliland, were arrested, and their cameras were confiscated.