Somalia

'The Somali authorities and the international community must do everything possible to stop this renewed and alarming pattern of targeted killings against Somali journalists and ensure their safety. 'Despite the Somali authorities having opened ...

Reporters Without Borders is dismayed to learn that Radio Shabelle journalist Ahmed Ado Anshur was gunned down on his way home today in Mogadishu, one of the world's 10 most dangerous places for the media. He was crossing Suq Bocle market in the ...

Assailants in Mogadishu today gunned down the host of a critical radio program, further punctuating what has already been a deadly year for the Somali press corps and for the journalist's employer, the Shabelle Media Network. Four unidentified men ...

The National Union of Somali Journalists is shocked and outraged by today's murder of a radio journalist in Mogadishu, the sixth such killing of a journalist in Somalia this year. Ahmed Addow Anshur, 25, was murdered on Thursday, 24 May 2012, by ...

The Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, Mark Bowden, made the following statement today: Following the African Union Mission in Somalia and Somali National Army movement into the Afgooye corridor, I reiterate my call for all ...

The African Union Mission in Somalia forces have made significant progress in the last 24 hours towards Afgoye town. Afgoye has been for a long time a stronghold of the Al-Qaeda backed Al-Shabaab insurgents and is a strategic junction for routes to ...

Early this morning, the African Union Mission in Somalia and the Somali National Army launched a carefully planned operation to bring security and stability to the people of the Afgoye corridor, west of Mogadishu. The Burundi and Ugandan forces of ...

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Agshin Mehdiyev : On Tuesday, 15 May, the members of the Security Council received a briefing from Augustine P. Mahiga, the Secretary-General's Special ...

Now that the government's time is almost close to the end, the leaders are trying to save their seats with a new Draft Constitution which seems that most of the Somali people cannot swallow and ingest.

Thousands of people in Somaliland are getting more fresh meat in their diet as a result of an innovative UN World Food Programme initiative that provides parents with vouchers to help them afford nutritious food from local traders. Under the ...

UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator today concluded a five-day mission to Somalia and Kenya to gauge progress in humanitarian efforts to respond to the consequences of the 2011 drought. ...

The number of people who need food aid decreased by 1.5 million, but 2.5 million people are still in crisis and that is a very large number, Ms. Bragg stressed.

In order to achieve a lasting peace in the region, the international community must stop meddling of the internal affairs of Somalia.

UNESCO's Director-General Irina Bokova said every effort must therefore be deployed to find the killers of Farhan James Abdulle and bring them to justice

Beled-weyne district football team in the Hiiraan region defeated its Guri-el district rivals by 3-2 in a friendly match hosted in the district of Guri-el in the central Somali region of Galgadud over the weekend.

UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova today deplored the murder of Somali radio journalist Farhan James Abdulle, who was shot dead on 2 May by unidentified gunmen in the village of Garsoor in Central Somalia. 'Farhan James Abdulle was a fervent ...

Somali journalists, media station managers, civil society representatives and government officials gathered on Thursday in Mogadishu to mark the World Press Freedom Day with the theme 'Media's Quest to Transform Society: Challenges of Press Freedom ...

The National Union of Somali Journalists welcomes the unanimous adoption of a resolution on the Attacks against Journalists and Media Practitioners in Somalia by the African Union commission on human and people's rights on 2 May 2012. NUSOJ is glad ...

Reporters Without Borders is dismayed to learn that radio journalist Farhan James Abdulle was murdered yesterday evening near Galkayo, the capital of the north-central region of Mudug. Two unidentified individuals shot him several times in the ...

The National Union of Somali Journalists Condemns in the strongest terms possible the Shooting to death of a radio journalist in the Central Somalia town of Galkacyo, the fifth journalist killed in Somalia in this year alone in the latest of string ...