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Somalia Press: November 2008 archive

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.

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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The Somali Journalists Rights Agency (SOJRA) today condemned the today’s abduction of two western journalists in Bossaso Puntland-Somalia.

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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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).

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...

SOJRA is condemning today’s arrest of Ilyaas Sheikh Shucayb who is the Director of Warsan radio in Baidoa.25 November,2008

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. More...

SOJRA welcomes the winning of Somali Cameraman to the International Rory Peck Award 19 November,2008

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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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.

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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SOJRA is shocked to find out and condemning the arrest of freelancer journalist

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. More...