Upon arrival, Mr. Alasow said, “I am leading my delegation to Kenya to meet the exiled Journalists here, assess their situation and help those who are in emergency need” “We heard that some journalists are facing hardships and others are missing the refugee status, so we are here to help them” he added.

Alasow met  with number of Journalists including leaders of media watchdogs, press freedom defenders and reporters in exile at Intercontinental hotel and discussed with them about the future of the free press in Somalia.

He told the journalists that it is important to be in unity and solidarity with others who are in need of help by moral or means.

Journalists who attended the meeting told Alasow that they anticipated him so long and want to take their fate to the international organizations helping the media.

Finally he promised for the journalists that he will take their voice to everywhere and will try to persuade the international organizations to help the journalists and stop dealing with the one man organizations claiming to represent the journalists.

More than 40 Somali journalists, who fled from Somalia, the worst place to be a journalist in African and in the world after Iraq after the warring parts harassed them and killed dozens of journalists.

The living conditions of the journalists are at stake, a time some local organizations claiming to help the journalists are getting money from the international organizations to help the suffering journalists but corrupting the money into inappropriate way.

(C) Sunatimes