Category: Press Release

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…