Death and detention major threats to media freedom in Somalia

ASOJ.ORG - Two journalists were killed and another 33 were detained while 133 cases of intimidation were logged in Somalia during 2020, the Associated Somali Journalists (ASOJ) reports in its State of Media Freedom Report 2021. Released on World Press Freedom Day 2021, the report titled Between a Rock…

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Security Council Press Statement on the situation in Somalia

New York - The members of the Security Council expressed their deep concern about the continued political impasse and disagreement among Somalia's political leaders on the model for elections. The members of the Security Council recalled the significant progress made during the past decade in Somalia,…

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Somalia's Government Loses Control of Several Neighborhoods in Mogadishu

Sunatimes.com - The government of Somalia's outgoing president Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo has lost control of some of the neighborhoods of the capital Mogadishu, just a week after parliament voted to approve a term extension resolution.

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Somalia ex-Spy NISA Boss Says He Survived Assassination Attempt

Sunatimes.com - Former director of Somalia's Intelligence Agency Abdirahman Turyare has said on Sunday night that he survived an assassination attempt after forces loyal to the country's outgoing president Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo fired on his vehicle. He was heading to the residences of officials,…

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Farmajo Asks Congo's President to Mediate Somalia's Electoral Dispute

Sunatimes.com - Somalia's president Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo asked his Congolese counterpart Felix Tshisekedi to mediate a bitter standoff on the country's electoral process during a meeting held in Kinshasa, DR Congo's presidency said in a statement on Monday. In a two-hour meeting, the…

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Somalia's Unsang Hero -Amin Ambulance founder

Sunatimes.com - As the secnd wave of the deadly corona virus continues to claim lives in Somalia, one man has sacrificed to help save lives by offe ring ambulances to ferry the sick to hospital at no cost. Somalia, is one of the poorest country in the world where basic healthcare facilities are poor,…

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Overview of Somali Security Forces -Heritage institute report

Sunatimes.com - Structural Impediments To Reviving Somalia's Security Forces. For over a decade, successive Somali governments and the international community have been earnestly trying to revive Somalia's security forces (SSF)1 as part of a broader effort to stabilize the country following…

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Somalia: Averting a Descent into Political Violence

Sunatimes.com - Tensions are running high following the Somali parliament's decision to extend the incumbent president's mandate by two years. External partners should urgently convene – and mediate – talks among the country's bitterly divided elites, to prevent its worst political crisis…

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Somalia charges foreigners with espionage, leaking of classified information Matt Bryden Emmanuel Deiser and David Hopkins.

Sunatimes.com - A court in Mogadishu has issued summonses to six persons affiliated with a regional think tank banned by Somalia in 2018. Banaadir Regional Court ordered the director and founder of Sahan Research Matt Bryden, Rashid Abdi, a prominent regional analyst and a senior analyst at Sahan, to…

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US Congress of Foreign Affairs Statement on the Election Crisis in Somalia

Sunatimes.com -Washington DC , Today, Representative Gregory W. Meeks and Michael McCaul, Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement in response to the lower house of the Somali parliament voting to extend President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed's…

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UK Govt "We have consistently opposed any initiatives leading to a parallel process, partial election or an extension of prior mandates in Somalia"

Press release Statement by Minister Duddridge on the Somalia elections: Statement by James Duddridge on the decision of the Lower House of the Somali Parliament to extend the mandates of Mohamed Farmajo as President and of the Somali Parliament by two years.

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UNITED STATES threats Former Somali President sanctions and visa restrictions

Implementation of this bill will pose serious obstacles to dialogue and further undermine peace and security in Somalia. It will compel the United States to reevaluate our bilateral relations with the Federal Government of Somalia, to include diplomatic engagement and assistance, and to consider all…

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Somalia Warns Against 'External Actors' Interference in Its Elections

Sunatimes.com - Somalia has warned against interference by external actors in its internal affairs and the country's elections, as tensions continue to simmer over delayed polls. In a statement addressed to the United Nations Security Council, which was issued on Friday, the government of Somali…

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Stichting Somij aims at encouraging reporters to utilize investigative methods for in-depth reporting

SOMIJ.ORG - STICHTING SOMIJ is a Somalia-based non-profit organization dedicated to helping the people of Somalis to understand what is happening in their country. The goal is to give the people the information they need to make informed decisions in a participatory democracy, to hold government and…

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The highest-ranking bomber in Somalia and Kenya is a Government Minister.

Sunatimes.com - Mr.Abdirahman Dhere, whose real name is Hassan Jama Hersi (Hassan Dhuh), is a State Minister in the Somali Government, a Member of Parliament and a Senior Al-Shabab Terrorist Official. Abdirahman Dhere, who worked at a Restaurant in Mogadishu's Wadajir District, joined Al-Shabaab…

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Journalists barred from covering Somali leaders' meeting

The Associated Somali Journalists is deeply concerned that journalists were today barred from covering the meeting of the leaders of the Federal Government of Somalia and Federal Member States (FMSs) as well as the Governor and Mayor of Mogadishu. Unlike previous leaders' meetings, ASOJ is reliably…

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Somalia: ASOJ strongly condemns the wounding of a journalist & arresting another.

ASOJ.ORG - Associated Somali Journalists (ASOJ) is deeply concerned about the escalating violence against Somali journalists in the Gedo region, particularly in Beled Hawo district on the Somali-Kenyan border where a journalist was injured by security forces and another was arbitrarily imprisoned by…

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Al-Qaeda Affiliate Al-Shabab Calls On Somalis To Reject AstraZeneca Vaccine

On March 30, 2021, the Somalia-based Al-Qaeda affiliate Harakat Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen released a statement calling on the people of Somalia to reject the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, which it described as "deadly and unsafe," and advising them to use the black seed plant and honey instead.

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Somaliland:Online Media Gangs planned to embezzle NEC AwarenessFunds

Sunatimes.com - As many source of information mentions, there is online gang media group that prepared a plan to embezzle the funds that the Somaliland National Electoral Commission (NEC) intended for media awareness campaign and the broadcasting of news, that related to these elections.

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RSF files lawsuit in France accusing Facebook of "deceptive commercial practices"

In a lawsuit filed with the public prosecutor in Paris on 22 march 2021, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) accuses Facebook of "deceptive commercial practices" on the grounds that the social media company's promises to provide a "safe" and "error-free" online environment are…

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