Alerts

MOGADISHU, Somalia 27 July, 2022 – On the conclusion of a three-day journalists’ training in Mogadishu, the U.S. Ambassador to Somalia, Larry André, on Wednesday joined SJS to award certificates to 26 journalists who completed the training to professionalize Somali media in line with freedom of expression.

MOGADISHU, Somalia 25 July 2022 – Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) and the Somali Media Association (SOMA) call for Somaliland authorities to halt the threats and harassment against British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) staff and journalists in Hargeisa; unconditionally release five members of the BBC Media Action team arbitrarily detained in Hargeisa on Saturday and allow BBC to resume operations.

MOGADISHU, Somalia 19 July 2022 – Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) and the Somali Media Association (SOMA) call for South West State (SWS) authorities to immediately and unconditionally free journalist Hassan Ali Daud held in undisclosed detention by South West State intelligence officers in Baidoa since Friday 15 July, as we also call for the federal authorities in Mogadishu to hold officers who attacked two reporters on Monday 18 July accountable.

MOGADISHU, Somalia 10 July, 2022 – Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) and the Somali Media Association (SOMA) call for the urgent and unconditional freedom of journalist Hashim Omar Hassan, a member of SJS human rights journalists network, who is arbitrarily detained in Adado town in Galmudug State, since Saturday morning 9 July, over Facebook posts deemed critical to Galmudug State president, Ahmed Abdi Karie (Qoorqoor).

MOGADISHU, Somalia 8 July, 2022 – Somalia’s South West State (SWS) authorities should stop threats and harassment against Arlaadi Media Network (AMN) and its journalists while we also call the Federal Ministry of Information to reject the South West State Minister of Information’s letter seeking legal actions against AMN, a joint statement by the Somali Mechanism of the Safety of the Journalists (SMSJ) said today.

MOGADISHU, Somalia 6 July, 2022 – Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) and the Somali Media Association (SOMA) condemns the arbitrary detention against RTN television reporter, Mohamed Abdirahin Mohamed, who is a member of SJS human rights journalists network, by South West State police in Baidoa, on Tuesday and the restrictions against journalists covering Jubbaland State Assembly sitting in Kismayo on Wednesday.

MOGADISHU, Somalia 4 July, 2022 – Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) and the Somali Media Association (SOMA) strongly condemn the arbitrary detention, harassment and solicitation of bribes by the Mogadishu police against four journalists working for Risaala Media Corporation, which is a member of SOMA network and its journalists are members of SJS, in Mogadishu on Monday 4 July, 2022.

MOGADISHU, Somalia 27 June, 2022 – Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) and the Somali Media Association (SOMA) condemn the bomb attack that has injured two journalists in central Somalia early on Monday.

MOGADISHU, Somalia 24 June, 2022 – The Somali Mechanism for the Safety of Journalists (SMSJ), a network coalition of seven journalists’ unions and media houses associations, on Thursday published its annual monitoring report covering the state of journalists’ safety and media freedom in Somalia.