Somalia: PM Shirdon appoints small cabinet consisting of President Hassan...
MOGADISHU, Somalia Nov 4 2012 (Garowe Online) â Prime Minister Saaâid Farah Shirdon announced the Cabinet of Ministers consisting of 10 Ministers defying the 4.5 formula, Garowe Online reports. At...
View ArticleSomalia: 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....
View ArticleSomalia: 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...
View ArticleCycles 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...
View ArticleSomalia: 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...
View ArticleSomalia: 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...
View ArticleAnother 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...
View ArticleSomalia 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...
View Article(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...
View ArticleSomalia: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...
View ArticleState 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...
View Article“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...
View ArticleU.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,...
View ArticleAnother 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...
View ArticleOpen 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...
View Article>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...
View ArticleNumber 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...
View Article16th 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...
View ArticleSomaliland 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...
View ArticleTV 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...
View ArticleConfidentiality 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...
View ArticleSomalia'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...
View ArticleSomalia 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...
View ArticleAbsurd 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,...
View ArticleSomalia 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...
View ArticleObsolete 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...
View ArticleAnother 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...
View ArticleSecurity 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...
View ArticleSomalia: 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...
View ArticleImpunity 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...
View ArticleSomali 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. ...
View ArticleThree 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...
View ArticleSomalia 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...
View ArticleRadio 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...
View ArticleConfidentiality 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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