Human Rights Council: 18th Session Item 10 – Interactive Dialogue with the Independent Expert on Somalia Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies 28th September 2011. Delivered by Ahmed Mahamed Ali “kiimiko” Somali Human Rights Defenders Network (SOHRIDEN)/East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Network. The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, the East and Horn of Africa Human... 

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Star’s investigative reporter Fatuma Noor is the overall winner of the this year’s CNN MultiChoice African Journalist of the Year Award. Noor won the award for her investigative three-part series on the Al-Shabaab. It was chosen from the 1407 entries from 42 nations across Africa. The series tells the story of the young men who give up their freedom abroad to return and fight for the Al-Shabaab... 

The Somaliland authorities are under local and international obligations to respect the freedom of journalists to gather news and report events as they unfold in the troubled Horn of Africa region, the chairman of Hayaan Media Development Centre said on Monday.   Ali Dahir Eid called for the breakaway Somali region’s administration to release Jibril Ali Omar and Dahir Ahmed Jirde, online correspondents... 

Hague, 30 March 2011 – The chairman of Hayaan Media Development, Ali Dahir Eid, has today welcomed the release of Radio Shabelle editors and called for the warring sides to respect the freedom of the media in the Horn of Africa nation.   Editors Abdi Mohamed Ismael and Abdirashid Omar Qase were arrested four days ago for reporting “inaccurate news” that Somali President, Sheikh Sharif... 

  Hayaan Media Development Center (HMDC) has on a serious mission condemned over the ongoing issue of two media houses (Hornafrik and GBC Muqdisho) that got attacked by the radical Islamist insurgent groups namely AL-SHABAB and HISBUL-ISLAM. GBC, A TV station based in Mogadishu (capital Somali) had been acknowledged in advance by the radical insurgents to hand over the entire TV station to Hisbil-islam... 

A Somali media-rights group says fighting between Islamist militants and the country’s U.N.-backed government is about to explode in a propaganda war for the hearts and minds of the Somali people. The secretary general of the National Union of Somali Journalists, Omar Faruk Osman, says three of Mogadishu’s 14 radio stations are now under the control of Islamist militants. Osman says... 

                                Thank you Mr. Chairman, Ali Muse. Before my remarks, I would like to begin with the most prized word, the name of Allah and Asalamu Caleykum.   I am glad to welcome you in the city of Utrecht in Holland for you attend the conference which I believe it has a great deal of interest for everyone involving media.  I would like to pass special... 

  Magaalada Utrecht ee dalka Holland waxaa manta ka furmay shir looga hadlayay xaaladda ay ku sugan Suxufiyiinta Soomaalida Yurub iyo kuwa joog gudaha Dalka Somalia,waxaana ka soo qeyb galay wariyayaaal Somaliyeed oo kala yimid Dalalka Uk,Holland,Swedan,Talyaniga,Norway iyo Dalka Kenya waxaa inta uu socday halkaasi lagu soo bandhigay arimo badan oo salka ku haya Xaalada Wariyayaasha Somalida. Shirkan... 

  Star FM’s radio broadcaster Kassim Mohammed and AFP’s (Agence France-Presse ) Mogadishu’s correspondent,  Mustafa Haji Abdinur were among the 15 recipients of one of the most prestigious awards in the African media and broadcasting industry; the CNN Multichoice African Journalism Award. The stiff competition included more than 2000 entries from 1000 journalists in 40 African countries.   “I...