Somalia Press
Mogadishu, Somalia 
Homepage: http://www.sojra.org
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Headquartered in Mogadishu the capital city of Somalia, the Somali Journalists rights agency (SOJRA) is an independent not for profit and not for governmental Agency at a national level founded in 2007 at Nairobi capital city of Kenya by a group of Somali Journalists intellectuals from cross-sections of the media and freedom of expression in Somalia.
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December 4, 2008
The training program aims to support the exiled Somali journalists to stay in the journalism professional as well as update their journalistic skills.
A total of 20 of both gender (9 female and 11 male) have been selected to participate in this training. There are more than sixty journalists who have been exile in Kenya since late 2007. More...
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November 27, 2008
The Somali Journalists Rights Agency (SOJRA) is concerned about the safety of its repressentative Awale Jama Salad who was one of the four kidnapped journalists in Bossaso Puntland-Somalia.
The four were abducted after they left their hotel and Somali freelancers Awale Jama Salaad who is also SOJRA repressentative in Puntland and Muktar Said were seized by unknown assailants around mid-day.
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November 26, 2008
The journalists" nationalities could not be confirmedone was believed to be British. Foreigners, journalists and humanitarian workers are frequently abducted for ransoms in Somalia.
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November 26, 2008
Press Release
SOJRA-Somalia for Immidiate Release
Hilaal Sheik Shuceyb the Director of Warsan Radio in Baidao was arrested by the police officers in Baidoa by the order of the Bay governor region Mr. Abdifatah Ibrahim (Geesey). More...
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November 26, 2008
The Somali Journalists Rights Agency(SOJRA) is condemning today’s arrest of Ilyaas Sheikh Shucayb who is the Director of Warsan radio in Baidoa.
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November 18, 2008
Somali news cameraman Abdullahi Farah Duguf has won the 2008 Rory Peck Award for News. The award honors freelance coverage of on-the-day news, where the focus is on the immediacy of the story. The winning footage Two Weeks in Mogadishu was shot in September 2007 and describes the human misery in the war-torn capital.
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November 16, 2008
Somali Journalists Rights Agency (SOJRA) strongly criticizes the closure of Radio Gaalkayo station, and the arresting of the director of the radio a popular radio in Gaalkayo Mudug region.
The president of semi-autonomous region of Puntland in North-eastern Somalia Mohamud Muse Hirsi (General Adde) ordered the closure of the radio and the Director Hassan Mohamed Jamac.
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November 3, 2008
The Somali Journalists Rights Agency (SOJRA) is shocked to find out and condemning the arrest of freelancer journalist Abdi-asiis Suleiman Ahmed, in Las’anood on 01 November, 2008 and this is not the first imprisonment of this journalist inside Las’anood district in Soul region.
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