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Somali Journalist Recognized for Brave Coverage
By Kerry M. Flynn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER Friday, November 19, 2010 Mohamed Olad Hassan, a Somali journalist who has covered the people of his nation amid dangerous insurgency over the last decade, was awarded the Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism at the Walter Lippmann House in Cambridge last night. Hassan, a [...]
Radio Horseed director freed after president pardon
Somali journalist freed Monday, November 08, 2010 Mogadishu (SOMWA) – A journalist who was jailed for six years in August for airing an interview with an al-Qaeda linked militia leader in Puntland state was freed Monday.
Somali young female journalist falls into mental trauma for her profession
Mogadishu 25 Feb. 2010 (SOFCA) Shukri Nur Ali 18 year old female journalist has been suffering from mental illness since earlier last year, when a phone call threat from unknown group, forced to give up her work as radio journalist.
SOMWA calls immediate release of Somaliweyn radio reporter
Mogadishu Wednesday, February 24, 2010 Somali Media Women Association (SOMWA) has strongly condemned the arrest and the detention of radio journalist Ali Yusuf Aden in Wanlaweyn district of Lower Shabelle region on Sunday 21 February 2010 by the the Al-Shabaab administration. The director of the Somaliweyn Abukar Hassan Kadaf, said on Wednesday that he fears [...]
Somali Media Women Association (SOMWA)
Somali Media Women Association (SOMWA) is an indigenous Local Organization for Women Journalists. Non-profit, non-partial, non- political and voluntary organization based in Baidoa. It was initiated by a group of good wishers and women Journalists from the region in January 2006 to address the issues focusing Somali Women Journalists.
