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Somalia: PM Shirdon appoints small cabinet consisting of President Hassan...

MOGADISHU, Somalia Nov 4 2012 (Garowe Online) – Prime Minister Saa’id Farah Shirdon announced the Cabinet of Ministers consisting of 10 Ministers defying the 4.5 formula, Garowe Online reports. At...

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Somalia: Somaliland President lifts ban on local newspaper

HARGEYSA, Somalia Aug. 19, 2013 (Garowe Online) – The President of Somalia’s separatist region of Somaliland, Ahmed Mohamed Silanyo lifted a ban on Hubaal newspaper on Sunday, Garowe Online reports....

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Somalia: Federal Parliament approves Prime Minister Shirdon

MOGADISHU, Somalia Oct 17 2012 (Garowe Online) - Somalia's Federal Parliament approved Abdi Farah Shirdon (Saaid) as Prime Minister of Somalia on Wednesday, Garowe Online reports. Prime Minister...

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Cycles of endless clan revenge to push Somalia into a deep grave

31/03/2013 By Drs Fatuma Lamungu Nur Mareeg.com-All events that are remembered and preserved in some authentic form constitute historical records. In our country, Somalia, people tend to ignore the...

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Somalia: PM unveils his new cabinet

4/011/2012 MOGADISHU (Mareeg.com)—Somalia’s PM Abdi Farah Shirdon has on Sunday officially nominated his first cabinet ministers, after weeks of wide-extensive consultations with the president and...

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Somalia: 360 reportedly dead in Puntland cyclone amid rescue operations

GAROWE, Somalia Nov.13, 2013 (Garowe Online)-Amid rescue operations, 360 people are reportedly feared dead and the number could reach 400 in Somalia’s northeastern region of Puntland, Garowe Online...

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Another journalist gunned down a day after three killed in suicide bombing...

(Source: RSF - Reporters sans frontières) Published on Friday 21 September 2012. Reporters Without Borders calls on the Somali authorities, African Union and international community to quickly make...

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Somalia picks cabinet, balances old guard with newcomers

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia unveiled a new cabinet on Sunday, keeping a delicate balance among rival clans as it tries to shake off years of conflict that still plagues the country despite a recent...

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(TOP secret: New List of the 18 Forthcoming Somali Cabinet Ministers after...

Mareeg.com-Mogadishu on Thursday 9, 2013 Somali Transparency (ST) hereby officially expose the forthcoming cabinet reshuffle where the Federal President H.E. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and his hand picked...

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Somalia:Ending Impunity

15/11/2012 Mareeg.com-A few days ago, an important meeting was held in Villa Somalia. This time the guests were not high profile visitors and VIPs from across the world. It was a group of...

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State radio technician gunned down in Mogadishu (RSF - Reporters sans...

(Source: RSF - Reporters sans frontières) Published on Monday 19 August 2013. Reporters Without Borders is shocked to learn that Ahmed Sharif, a technician working for state-owned Radio Mogadishu, was...

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“Journalists have the right to interview people” (RSF - Reporters sans...

(Source: RSF - Reporters sans frontières) Published on Tuesday 12 February 2013. Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that Radio Kulmiye reporter Daud Abdi Daud has been held without charge...

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U.S. recognition of Somalia govt creates political storm in Somaliland

HARGEISA, Somalia Jan. 21, 2013 (Garowe Online) - The U.S. government 's decision to formally recognize the first Somali national government since 1991 has created a political storm in Somaliland,...

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Another journalist murdered in Somalia, 16th this year (RSF - Reporters sans...

Published on Wednesday 24 October 2012. Reporters Without Borders is saddened to learn that Ahmed Saakin Farah Ilyas, a young TV journalist based in Las Anod, in the breakaway northwestern territory...

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Open letter to prime minister about freedom of information reforms (RSF -...

(Source: RSF - Reporters sans frontières) Reporters Without Borders addressed an open letter today to Somali Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon calling for the decriminalization of media offences and...

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>Number of murdered Somali reporters grows to 16

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The list of murdered Somali journalists keeps growing longer, and no one seems able to stop it. The death of Ahmed Saakin Farah brought the number to 16 Somali journalists...

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Number of murdered Somali reporters grows to 16

The list of murdered Somali journalists keeps growing longer, and no one seems able to stop it. The death of Ahmed Saakin Farah brought the number to 16 Somali journalists killed this year, most in...

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16th Somali journalist killed this year

Television journalist Ahmed Saakin Farah Ilyas was shot dead on Tuesday (23 October) and became the 16th journalist to be killed in Somalia this year. Farah, 25, worked for the privately-owned...

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Somaliland journalists jailed for libel

Two journalists have been jailed and fined in Somaliland for allegedly libelling the country's president and foreign diplomats. Hassan Hussein Abdullahi, editor of the daily newspaper Hubaal, was...

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TV reporter gunned down in Galkayo (RSF - Reporters sans frontières)

(Source: RSF - Reporters sans frontières) Published on Monday 8 July 2013. Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that Liban Abdullahi Farah, a TV reporter also known as Liban Qaran, was...

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Confidentiality of sources would end under proposed new law (RSF - Reporters...

(Source: RSF - Reporters sans frontières) Published on Monday 15 July 2013. Reporters Without Borders is very worried by the grave threat to media freedom and media pluralism posed by a bill that the...

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Somalia's prime minister and cabinet ousted

Parliamentary vote to remove Abdi Farah Shirdon proves country's institutions have come of age, says UN representative Abdi Farah Shirdon was voted out of office after refusing to include President...

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Somalia takes major step forward on counter-terrorism

18 April 2013 Mareeg.com-The Somalia Council of Ministers today approved new counter-terrorism legislation intended to bring the country into line with international best practice. Chairing the weekly...

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Absurd jail terms passed on newspaper’s owner and its editor (RSF - Reporters...

(Source: RSF - Reporters sans frontières) Published on Wednesday 25 June 2014. Haatuf, a Somali-language newspaper based in Hargeisa, the capital of the breakaway northwestern territory of Somaliland,...

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Somalia profile

A chronology of key events: Continue reading the main story Somali capital: Mogadishu The old port: Historic heart of Mogadishu Emerged as Arab settlement in 10th century Bought by Italy in 1905...

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Obsolete laws used to persecute two detained journalists (RSF - Reporters...

(Source: RSF - Reporters sans frontières) Published on Monday 19 May 2014. Updated on Friday 16 May 2014. Reporters Without Borders condemns the unfairness of the proceedings to which Yusuf Abdi...

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Another news outlet bites the dust in police raid (RSF - Reporters sans...

(Source: RSF - Reporters sans frontières) Published on Wednesday 9 April 2014. Reporters Without Borders is very disturbed by yesterday's police raid on the headquarters of the independent daily Haatuf...

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Security agency arrests journalists, closes radio stations after banning...

(Source: RSF - Reporters sans frontières) Published on Thursday 11 September 2014. Taking its fight against the Islamist militia Al-Shabaab to the airwaves, Somalia's National Intelligence and Security...

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Somalia: Jubaland gains support, as federal gov’t rejects outcome

KISMAYO, Somalia May 16 2013 (Garowe Online) – Somalis abroad and at home have been expressing their support for the new Jubaland state President elect Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed (Madoobe) as a Somali...

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Impunity guaranteed for violence against journalists in Somalia (RSF -...

(Source: RSF - Reporters sans frontières) Published on Thursday 20 November 2014. Reporters Without Borders condemns journalist Abdirisak Ali Abdi's murder on 18 November 2014 in Galkayo, in the...

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Somali TV journalist shot dead

A Somali TV reporter who worked for London-based satellite channel, Kalsan TV, was shot and killed yesterday in Galkayo, the capital of Somalia's north-central region of Mudug. ...

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Three journalists held for reporting possible Ebola case (RSF - Reporters...

(Source: RSF - Reporters sans frontières) Published on Tuesday 6 January 2015. Reporters Without Borders calls for the release of three radio journalists who have been held without charge since their...

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Somalia govt 'pursuing leadership change in Galmudug': sources

MOGADISHU, Somalia Apr 5, 2013 (Garowe Online) - Confidential sources in Mogadishu, Galkayo and London have informed Garowe Online that Somalia’s federal government is “pursuing leadership change” in...

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Radio Shabelle editor targeted by information minister (RSF - Reporters sans...

(Source: RSF - Reporters sans frontières) Published on Wednesday 17 July 2013. Reporters Without Borders is very worried by the summons that Abdi Mohamed Ismail, a radio journalist also known as Abdi...

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Confidentiality of sources would end under proposed new Law

15/07/2013 Mareeg.com-Reporters Without Borders is very worried by the grave threat to media freedom and media pluralism posed by a bill that the Somali cabinet approved on 11 July and, if adopted by...

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