Somaliland TV and The Bardaale Problem
Hargeisa, 14 July 2009 (Somalilandpress) – The is no Somalilander, who is not angered over the loose Gov’t handling of the land problem. In th hitory of land Disputes, it had been customery for...
View ArticleU.S. Urges Release of Journalists in Somaliland
U.S. Embassy, Nairobi, Kenya Press Release July 17, 2009 U.S. Urges Release of Journalists in Somaliland The United States government condemns the recent arrests in Somaliland of Radio Horyaal...
View ArticleJournalists arrested, beaten in Somaliland and Puntland: RSF
NAIROBI — Two journalists were arrested and a television station shut down in Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland while several others were beaten in the self-declared state of Puntland, a media...
View ArticleA Troubled Year for Somaliland’s Media
Hargeisa, 3 August 2009 (Somalilandpress) – Every nation’s information flows through a variety of media system intended for progress and for its people’s guidance. Somaliland media has done a...
View ArticleThe Jailings and Spurious Charges Against Journalists in Somaliland
“Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are...
View ArticleRole of the Media in Somaliland Elections – New report published
HARGEISA, 22 September 2009 (Somalilandpress) – A report examining the role of the media in the upcoming Somaliland elections in the light of lessons learned from Kenya, has been published in September...
View ArticleIFJ Concerned by Degradation of Freedom of Expression in Somaliland
HARGEISA, 24 September 2009 (Somalilandpress) – The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today expressed its concern over the continuous degradation of freedom of expression in Somaliland,...
View ArticleIn defence of the VOA Somali Service
HARGEISA, 4 October 2009 (Somalilandpress) – Puntland government’s decision to suspend the reporting duties of VOA stringers in Galkacyo, Garowe and Bosaso is deplorable. In a letter signed by Deputy...
View ArticleLocal Journalists Launch Action Plan To Counter The Oppression Of The Media
NAIROBI, 1 December 2009 (Somalilandpress) – Somali media and journalist associations decided on a cooperative action plan to counter the growing oppression of the media in Somalia. In 2009 six Somali...
View ArticleCPJ’s annual prison census 2009: In Sub-Saharan Africa, 9 out of 10 detained...
New York, 8 December 2009 (Somalilandpress) – On December 1, a total of 25 journalists were imprisoned in Sub-Saharan Africa in retaliation for their journalism, and nearly 90 percent of these...
View ArticleSOMALILAND: Journalists sign ‘media Code of Conduct’ before elections
HARGEISA (Somalilandpress) — Representatives of Somaliland’s leading media houses signed a media code of conduct yesterday governing the behavior of journalists covering the June presidential...
View ArticleWhat Somaliland needs to learn from the London riots
Support your community (Photograph by Mark T Jones) To many in far flung parts of the globe the scenes of apparent anarchy in London proved both fascinating and appalling in equal measure. Here was the...
View ArticleSomaliland media: Spreading the word
OPINION | May 17, 2012 By Liban Obsiye While speaking with my young teenage cousin over supper at home I was surprised when he asked me to change the channel we were watching to the Somaliland National...
View ArticleDJIBOUTI OBSERVATORY FOR THE PROMOTION OF DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS (ODDH)
In a country where rumor and hearsay have storefront we undertook to seek information to differentiate the good from the bad. Confidentially we sought the reasons for the journalist and activist...
View ArticleOn Corruption and Somali Journalists
By Liban Ahmad The reaction by some Somali journalists in Mogadishu to the Guardian article by the Somali journalist, Jamal Osman, vindicated Jamal who argued that corruption also caused the...
View ArticleSOMALIA: Former Somali Prime Minister calls Puntland authority ‘oppressive’
This week, the former Prime minister of Somalia, Abdiweli Ali Gaas has called on the Puntland authorities not oppress the people and the media, reports Horseed Media. Abdiweli also called the regime of...
View ArticleStand for Somaliland Institutions
Somaliland’s political process to function fairly and democratically at all times would need solid institutions in unison with vibrant civil society that acts as the cohesion in our social fabric. The...
View ArticleWorld: Conflict and murder drive sharp increase in journalist deaths
New York, December 18, 2012-Combat-related deaths in Syria and targeted murders in Somalia, Pakistan, and Brazil are the driving forces behind a sharp rise in press fatalities in 2012, according to the...
View ArticleWhat are the impediments to Somaliland´s growth and are we emotionally...
This sort of article is an oddity for this organization because normally we chose to focus on more pertinent issues that strengthen the bedrock Institutions Somaliland needs to augment in order to...
View ArticleSomaliland: Of misinformation and Disinformation: The Media and Society in...
It beats reason when given the fact that despite having the production ways and means of disseminating swiftly authentic, well researched and balanced news, educate the populace and...
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