Somalia - RSF writes a letter to François Hollande on freedom of the press in Somalia

Reporters without borders

As President François Hollande prepares to meet his Somali counterpart, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, Reporters Without Borders wishes to draw the attention of the French leader to the state of freedom of information in Somalia, where journalists are frequently targeted by armed militias such as al-Shabab and are also subjected to arbitrary arrest by the authorities. Somali journalists continue to pay the price of the absence of the rule of law in Somalia, and are about to face even more curbs on (...)

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