All Entries in the "Media" Category
SOMWA conducts capacity building for the journalists and the civil society members
Friday, 31 December, 2010 – With the support of IREX, the Somali Media Women Association (SOMWA) has implemented a three- day training workshop on media advocacy for targeted Somali women journalists and the civil society organizations in Mogadishu, Somalia. The training workshop was implemented at Ambassador Hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia from 28 – 30 December [...]
Press Freedom Prize goes to Somali radio station
In partnership with the French retail chain Fnac, Reporters Without Borders has awarded its 2010 Press Freedom Prize to two symbols of courage, the jailed Iranian journalist Abdolreza Tajik and the embattled Somali news radio station Radio Shabelle. The awards were presented at ceremony hosted by journalist Elizabeth Tchoungui at the Foreign Press Reception Centre [...]
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 [...]
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.
Somali journalists face death threats, kidnappings
NAIROBI, Kenya — Islamist insurgents blindfolded journalist Ibrahim Mohamed Hussein, tied his hands behind his back and ordered him to face Mecca. Then a man put a knife to his throat. A last-second phone call spared Hussein’s life. His family had paid an $18,000 ransom. After the attack he fled to Uganda, leaving behind his [...]
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.
New mission for Somalia’s Mustafa Haji Abdinur
By Tom Rhodes/Africa Program Coordinator January 21 marks Press Day in Somalia, the most dangerous country in Africa to be a journalist. As such, few local journalists find much reason to celebrate. With nine Somali journalists killed in the line of duty last year, numerous local journalists have fled, especially from the restive capital, Mogadishu. [...]
Al Qaeda-Linked Group Orders two Somali Radio Stations Closed
MOGADISHU, Somalia — A powerful Islamist group linked to Al Qaeda on Wednesday ordered two radio stations in southwestern Somalia to stop broadcasts indefinitely. Al-Shabab delivered letters to Jubba and Warsan Radio stations early Wednesday ordering the shut down without giving any reasons, said Mohamed Adawe, a journalist with Jubba Radio.
Chairperson of SOMWA visited two imprisoned journalists
The director of radio Warsan Mr. Hilaal Sheik Shuceyb whom TFG police arrested yesterday with the order of the Bay Governor Mr. Abdifatah Ibrahim (Geesey) has been released with out being judged. Just after the release of the Mr. Hilaal, police arrested Mrs. Hindia Sheik Mohamed a news caster at radio Warsan and the director [...]
SOMWA condemned the attack on the Somali journalist
Gunmen dressed in a Police uniform attacked and injured Somali journalist Mohamed Yassin Isaaq on Tuesday night in the central town of Galkayo , the provincial capital of Mudug region. Mohamed was a reporter for the Voice of America (VOA) .the ruthless gunmen targeted him on the chest close to the heart. He is now [...]
