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Somalia:Killings, corruption and censorship besiege media freedom

0 Visits: 6907 | Friday February 14, 2020 - 06:46:57
A surge in violent attacks, threats, harassment and intimidation of media workers is entrenching Somalia as one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a journalist, Amnesty International said today.

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Somalia: journalists targeted for speaking out

0 Visits: 6411 | Friday February 14, 2020 - 05:42:52
Nur Ismail Sheikh was an editor in Mogadishu for privately-owned Shaaciye news website. He told Amnesty International that he wrote articles and posted short videos that were critical of senior government officials on his Facebook account. Police arrested him without a warrant in November 2018. He was…

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Somalia Report 2019 focuses on the main developments and key trends in politics, security, economy, social services

0 Visits: 6702 | Friday January 24, 2020 - 00:56:43
Sunatimes.com - The State of Somalia (SOS) Report focuses on the main developments and key trends in politics, security, economy, social services and the role of external actors from 1 January to 31 December 2019. The objective of the report is to: empirically and systemically document key events in…

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International report calls USA to sanction Hormuud telecom as a terrorist Company

0 Visits: 2880 | Monday January 20, 2020 - 14:26:46
This report, Reaping the Whirlwind: Hormuud Entrepreneurs and the Resurgence of Al-Shabaab, traces the rise of Hormuud in the sullied milieu of Civil War Somalia drenched in Islamic radicalism that birthed Al-Shabaab as Africa's deadliest terrorist group.

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Over 16,000 people sign petition asking the UK gov't to revoke Somali singer's visa over "hateful remarks"

0 Visits: 6838 | Wednesday January 01, 2020 - 01:16:01
Waagacusub.com - A UK woman is petitioning her government to revoke the 6-month visa granted to a popular controversial Somali singer who linked Mogadishu's rampant terror attacks to Somali leader's refusal to grant Somaliland autonomy.

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Somalia Largest Mobile Network -Hormuud Telecom Linked among Top Shabaab Financiers

0 Visits: 2606 | Friday November 29, 2019 - 07:09:36
Somalia largest mobile telephone network company, Hormuud Telecom has been linked with entities funding and providing logistical support to the Al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Shabaab. The mobile telephone company has been accused of paying millions of shillings to the jihadist group for protection of its business…

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SOMALIA: Oiling Al-Shabaab's Economic Empire

0 Visits: 6902 | Saturday November 09, 2019 - 04:13:36
Al-Shabaab is more than just a terrorist group. In 2011, its annual revenue was in the region of $70–100 million per year. In 2018, the President of the Somali Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) confirmed that Al-Shabaab collected an estimated $20 million dollars from South Somalia alone.

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Somalia:Risk of terrorism financing through mobile money- Hormuud Telesom and Golis ?

0 Visits: 6737 | Friday October 11, 2019 - 12:08:40
-Risk of terrorism financing through mobile money: Al-Shabaab can finance its terrorist activities due to the lack of regulation on mobile money transfers. - Risk of money laundering through mobile money: Money launderers can use mobile money, as they can multiply mobile money accounts without giving…

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Somalia: List of companies that pay Al-Shabaab most - Hormuud Telecom

2 Visits: 8772 | Tuesday September 03, 2019 - 20:13:06
Al-Shabaab gets a lot of money from Somali business people, especially those in Mogadishu, according to reports published by Washington Post and UN Somalia and Eritrea monitoring group.

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UN Somalia:Underlining the importance of finalising an inclusive political settlement

0 Visits: 6093 | Sunday June 02, 2019 - 06:32:47
Underlining the importance of finalising an inclusive political settlement between the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) and the Federal Member States (FMS) and recalling the importance of the full implementation of the conditions-based Transition Plan with clear target dates (Transition Plan) which…

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Terrorising the victims of terror in Somalia "a failed elite, and the Western 'War on Terror'."

0 Visits: 5759 | Wednesday May 29, 2019 - 22:46:07
Terrorising the victims of terror in Somalia. "One wonders what Somalis might have accomplished if they were not sandwiched between pernicious local terrorists, a failed elite, and the Western 'War on Terror'." By ABDI ISMAIL SAMATAR

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President Farmajo Expelled UN Envoy to Deny Accountability and Justice to Somali Victims

0 Visits: 6724 | Wednesday January 23, 2019 - 06:46:04
Sunatimes.com - For the last 2 years, the Somali people have been painfully struggling to cope with the shocking reality of leadership failure under President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo elected on high hope of him fostering the statebuilding project (not leading established state) of Federal, Democratic…

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impeachment motion against the President of Somalia - National treason

0 Visits: 6839 | Monday December 24, 2018 - 05:57:46
Members of the National Salvation Caucus in the House of the People who tabled the impeachment motion against the President of the Federal Republic of Somalia hereby declare that they have withdrawn the motion for the sake of the people and country's interest after considering the status quo and…

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Somalia: ASOJ condemns the murder of veteran journalist

0 Visits: 6613 | Sunday December 23, 2018 - 04:04:54
The Associated Somali Journalists (ASOJ) condemns the murder of veteran journalist and other innocent people by coordinated double suicide bombings in Mogadishu.

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CPJ Report on the harassment & violations of media rights by Mogadishu Mayor Abdirahman Osman.

0 Visits: 7005 | Thursday December 13, 2018 - 18:20:15
Police on November 20, 2018, arrested Nur Ismail Sheikh, an editor for the privately owned website Shaaciye, at a Mogadishu hotel where a government official from the Banadir Regional Administration, had asked to meet him, according to Abdalle Ahmed Mumin, a journalist who is familiar with the case,…

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Top Secret:Ethiopia police commissioner lied about the torture of president Abdi Iley

0 Visits: 10586 | Friday September 14, 2018 - 00:34:48
Sunatimes.com - Orommo soldiers have tortured former Somali region in Ethiopia president Abdi Mohamud Omar inside the jail, while his mother, Mrs Deeb, and his wife Sadika were with him, independent media reported.

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Belgium has rejected the asylum request of a woman who is a human rights and young girls' activist in Mogadishu.

0 Visits: 6283 | Sunday September 02, 2018 - 17:51:08
Government of Belgium has rejected the asylum request of a woman who is a human rights and young girls' activist in Mogadishu. Ifrah Abdi Guled works for the NGO Daryel Association based in Sweden.

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Somaliland: Somtel Dahabshiil Scandal and Violation"Hacking and surveillance may undermine right to privacy"

0 Visits: 9368 | Sunday June 03, 2018 - 05:50:53
Somaliland: "Hacking and surveillance may undermine right to privacy" Although I have been always suspicious of government surveillance, I have never expected a private telecommunication company will act as an agent of the government to seek hacking techniques on its behalf.

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Somalia: The shift from crooked democracy to authoritarianism

0 Visits: 7112 | Thursday May 31, 2018 - 08:24:18
Sunatimes.com - Somalia's presidential election last year seen as milestone of corruption by some and others as a fresh start for a war ravaged country is looking more and more like a false dawn – a huge opportunity lost.

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Somalia: A Sitch in the Somali parliament

1 Visits: 11825 | Sunday February 18, 2018 - 21:25:00
Sunatimes.com - Mustaf Ali Duhulow is a member of Somali National Assembly who was sworn to serve his war-torn nation, but he instead decided to serve a neighboring country that has sinister geopolitical interest for minor political advantage.

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