Year: 2020

In a bid to eradicate Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV), fifty (50) male and female journalists drawn from the media in Mogadishu participated a three-day training on ending Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) […]

The intensified clampdown on the media in Somaliland in the last few days underscores the unwillingness of Somaliland’s administration to respect media freedom and the right of the people to access information about what is […]

Banadir Regional Court has for the first time issued court order that directed the Attorney General Office (AGO) to urgently commence investigations into the killings of journalists to confront impunity and to bring the perpetrators […]

A total of 283 journalists and other media workers in Mogadishu have today received from the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) face masks as part of efforts to provide essential protection for the safety of […]

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) highly welcomes the statement issued by the European Parliament’s Human Rights Sub-Committee on the state of media freedom in Somalia.  NUSOJ has made submission to the European Parliament’s […]

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) strongly condemns the murder of broadcast journalist in Mogadishu, and demands immediate prosecution of the assailants to ensure justice to the slain journalist.  Journalist Said Yusuf Ali, 30, […]

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) condemns the brutal methods by officials of Mogadishu Municipality against two journalists, and calls on the authorities to ensure that this violence does not go unpunished. Safia Osman […]

The President of Somalia, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed “Farmaajo”, has today officially declared that Somalia’s outdated and draconian Penal Code of 1964 will be reformed to protect journalists and freedom of expression.  In his official message […]

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) joins the rest of the world in celebrating 2020 World Press Freedom Day which is being commemorated under unusual and extremely difficult circumstances due to challenges and hardships […]

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) welcomes the news that journalist Mukhtar Mohamed Atosh, reporter for Voice of America -Somali Service (VOA), has been freed on bail following an arrest that prompted national and […]

Southwest government has today pressed criminal charges against journalist Mukhtar Mohamed Atosh, VOA reporter, after arresting him yesterday in Baidoa’s city centre, holding him at the Crimes Investigation Department (CID) last night and transferred him […]

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) condemns in the strongest terms possible the arrest of a prominent journalist in Baidoa, Southwest State of Somalia, for a news report featuring rape case. Journalist Mukhtar Mohamed […]

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) has today published new guidance (advices) setting out how journalists and media houses in Somalia can meet their media duties as they navigate the effects of the coronavirus […]

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) condemns the arrest and continued detention of journalist Abdiasis Ahmed Gurbiye, who is the Deputy Director of Goobjoog Media Group. According to fellow journalists, Gurbiye has been arrested […]

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) has today called on the Federal Government of Somalia to classify the media as essential service and open up the operating space for the media during the impending […]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the National Union of Somali journalists (NUSOJ) call on the Somali authorities, including federal member states and Somaliland, to refrain from claiming a monopoly of information about the coronavirus crisis […]