Somalia - Harassment and attacks on journalists in Puntland and Somaliland

Reporters without borders

With growing concern, Reporters Without Borders has registered at least eight serious press freedom violations ranging from arbitrary arrest to shooting attacks on journalists in the past two months in the semi-autonomous northeastern region of Puntland and the breakaway northwestern territory of Somaliland. In most of these cases, there has been no investigation and no one has been punished. “When attention is turned to Somalia, it tends to focus on the ruined capital of Mogadishu, where (...)

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