Mogadishu, Somalia | December 12, 2025 The Somali Women Journalists Organization (SWJO) wishes to formally clarify and place on record its position regarding recent engagement initiated by the National Independence Electoral and Boundaries Commission of Somalia (NIEBC) involving members of the media. In recent days, SWJO received repeated official requests from the National Election Committee…
Press Release: Concern Over Arrest of Himilo TV Journalists in Mogadishu Mogadishu, Somalia – October 13, 2025 The Somali Women Journalists Organization (SWJO) expresses deep concern over the detention of two journalists from Himilo TV — Director Ahmed Mohamed Adam (commonly known as Jubba) and Deputy Director Khadar Abdirahim Ibrahim (Khadar Nasri) — who have…
Mogadishu, Somalia – 10 July 2025 A three-day capacity-building workshop on “Enhancing Gender Balance in Media Content” concluded today in Mogadishu, bringing together 28 Somali journalists, including reporters, radio/TV producers, news anchors, and content creators from various media houses across the country. The workshop, organized by the Somali Women Journalists Organization (SWJO) in partnership with…
The Somali Women Journalists Organization (SWJO) strongly condemns the Federal Government’songoing manipulation of the process to establish Somalia’s Independent Human Rights Commission.What should have been a milestone for justice has become a political tool, engineered by Villa Somaliato shield power, silence critics, and suppress accountability. SWJO speaks not only as a women-led media rights organization…
Mogadishu, Somalia – The Somali Women Journalists Organization (SWJO) strongly condemns the detention and harassment of 9 journalists by government security forces in Mogadishu. These journalists were conducting vox pop interviews on the political situation in the country along Maka-Almukarama Street—a central and busy public area—when they were detained. During their detention, the journalists were…
Mogadishu, May 15, 2024 – Somali Mechanism for Safety of Journalists (SMSJ) network is strongly worried and concerned over the process that Somali federal government established the National Media Council that was completely against the media law of the country. The media council that was passed by the cabinet of Somalia on March 2024 is…
MOGADISHU, Somalia 10 October 2022 – The Somali media fraternity and the journalists’ associations* are concerned about the new directive issued by the Somali Federal Government containing a blanket ban and suspension on what it calls “dissemination of extremist and terrorist ideology”. On Saturday 08 October, the Ministry of Information of the Federal Government of…
Mogadishu, 11/04/2020:- The Somali Women Journalist is appalled and condemns the manner in which the Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism advertised two vacant positions available at the Somali National Television SNTV to be applied by female journalists. The requirements by the Ministry include height, weight and TV appearance as well as an excellent broadcasting…
Mogadishu, 22 ,December 2018: Somali Media Association (SOMA), Somalia Independent Media Houses Association(SIMHA), Somali Women Journalists(SWJ) , National Union of Somali Journalists(NUSOJ) and Media Association of Puntland (MAP) were all shocked by the death of the veteran Somali journalist Awil Dahir Salad, whose death was a result of twin suicide bombings in Mogadishu on Today (Saturday)…
strongly condemn the wounding of Somali Journalist Mogadishu, Tuesday, December 4, 2018: We the undersigned media associations in Somalia are deeply saddened to learn that Mr. Ismail Sheikh Khalifa, a Somali veteran journalists and media rights activist has been seriously wounded in car bomb blast in Mogadishu. Mr. Ismail Sheik Khalifa has been hurt and…
