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 »
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The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) is condemning today’s arrest of journalist Abdulkadir Mohammed Nunow, who is the Director of Horseed Radio in Bossasso, a newly established private Radio. 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”
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.
At a ceremony held during the fifth assembly of World Movement for Democracy (WMD) in Kiev, Ukraine, which is a global network of democrats including independent journalists, trade unionists, business leaders, religious leaders, human rights activists, practitioners, academics, policy makers, and funders, who have come together to cooperate in the promotion of democracy, honoured the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) at an award ceremony today with the presentation of the Democracy Courage Tribute on behalf of Somali Journalists.
The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) today welcomed the renewal of the mandate of the Independent Expert on Human Rights Situation in Somalia and the approval of new mandate holder for Somalia in the Review, Rationalization and Improvement of Mandate of Independent Expert on Situation of Human Rights in Somalia.
NUSOJ has released a report on the new media law that was passed by Somalia’s Transitional Federal Parliament on 8 December 2007.
The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) today condemns in the strongest possible terms the shocking attacks on Radio Shabelle and Radio Simba in Mogadishu by the Armed Forces of the Somalia Transitional Federal Government.
