The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) today condemns the arrest of Mohammed Mohamud, Director of Radio Daljir in Bossasso. Continue Reading »
'Press Freedom and Safety' Category
In the past six (6) months of 2008, a large number of Somali journalists and other media workers were subjected to various methods of violence and oppression such as harassment, killing, professional punishment, beatings, threats, arrests, arbitrary detention, maltreatment and censorship. Continue Reading »
Brussels - Mogadishu, 26 June 2008 - The International News Safety Institute (INSI) and its Somalia partner, the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) provided safety training to 48 Somali journalists and other media staff in Djibouti. Since 2007, Somalia has become Africa’s most dangerous country for journalists and the world’s deadliest place for media professionals outside Iraq. Continue Reading »
Emotional Tribute to Murdered Colleague, Somali Journalists express Palpable Sense of Shock in the Media Profession
20th. Jun 2008
Editors, reporters, producers and media directors from Somalia’s main towns of Mogadishu, Baidoa, Garowe, Galkayo, Beledweyn, Jowhar, Kismayu and Bardhere who gathered today in Djibouti for Safety Awareness Training Workshop organised by the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) in partnership with the Brussels-based International News Safety Institute (INSI) paid emotional tribute to the Vice president of the National Union of Somali Journalists, Nasteh Dahir Farah, who was murdered for his right to practice journalistic profession on 7th June in Kismayu. Continue Reading »
Call for International Efforts to Make Journalism Safer in Somalia Following Assassination of Union Leader
13th. Jun 2008
Nasteh Dahir Farah, Vice President of the National Union of Somali Journalists, was assassinated on Saturday, 7 June 2008, in Kismayu of southern Somalia. Somali journalists robustly condemned this atrocious assassination as intolerable act. World Journalists, Press Freedom and Free Expression community joined Somali journalists’ condemnation and call for safety measures, as well as journalists community in Eastern Africa, Media Support organizations, the United Nation and the European Union. Continue Reading »
1980 – 2008: Nasteh Dahir Farah
“From Allah We Came and to Him is our Eventual Return”
The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) is shockingly condemning the targeted assassination of its Vice President Nasteh Dahir Farah, who was gunned down by gunmen southern town of Kismayu today (7 June 2008) around 19hrs Somalia time. Continue Reading »
The contribution of Omar Faruk Osman, NUSOJ Secretary General, at the Seminar
“Freedom of Expression - Missing in Action” Oslo, 7 April 2008
UN Security Council Receives Somali Journalists’ Call for Safety, Protection and Press Freedom
3rd. Jun 2008
The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) has today submitted to the members of United Nations Security Council who are in Djibouti to meet Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government and opposition Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia a note expressing deteriorating situation of media freedom and safety of journalists, which was created by Somalia’s increasingly violent political climate. Continue Reading »
IFJ Affiliates in Arab World and Iran Target Safety, Solidarity and Ethical Journalism
29th. May 2008
Journalists’ unions in membership of the International Federation of Journalists from 12 countries across the Arab World and Iran have launched a comprehensive programme of work focused on safety, press freedom, ethics and improving working conditions following a three day conference in Casablanca 19/21st May.
