Bay Region

Somalia: World's Journalists Condemn Attacks on Media

press release The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the upsurge of attacks against journalists and news media organisations in Somalia. The IFJ condemns the grave press freedom violations that have...

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TGF Officials in Bakol Say They Are Continuing Plans to Retake Over Regions

The officials of the Transitional Federal Government in Bakol region have said that they are continuing plans they want to retake over the control of both Bay and Bakol region in southern Somalia, official told Shabelle radio...

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Somalia: Weekly Humanitarian Bulletin No. 43, 30 Oct - 06 Nov 2009

Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Full_Report (pdf* format - During the week, two employees of a WFP-contracted transport company were killed in an ambush by an armed group that...

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Union Condemns Media Raids And Journalists Arrests

Baidoa — The National Union of Somali Journalists has strongly condemned a wave of arrests of journalists and media house raids across Southern Somali regions last week. According to Eastern Africa Journalists Agency (EAJA)...

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SOMALIA: IRIN Radio - Wednesday 28 October 2009

In today's programme - Dhegeyso barnaamijka maanta · Puntland: Authorities intervene to halt clan conflict in Bari region · Baidoa: Five women raped on Mogadishu to Baidoa road · Dadaab: Medical facilities in refugee camps ·...

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Somalia Islamists shut down two radio stations

MOGADISHU, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- The Islamist rulers of southern Somali town of Baidoa on Wednesday ordered the closure of two local radio stations for an indefinite time. In a decree issued by the local Al Shabaab appointed...

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Baidoa Radio Station Shut / Director and News Editor Held by Al-Shabab Militants

IPI: International Press Institute By Naomi Hunt, IPI Press Freedom Adviser for Africa and the Middle East Al-Shabab militants in the Somali town of Baidoa yesterday shut down privately-owned Radio Warsan, and took the...

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Somalia: Kismayo - the Vortex of Country's Wars

The Somali civil war erupted in 1991 following the overthrow of the Horn of Africa country's 21-year military dictatorship under Gen. Barre by clan warlords, who quickly turned on each other and plunged Somalia into years of...

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Somalia: 15 people killed and more than 50 wounded in Kismayo, Lower Juba

Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Full_Report (pdf* format - 28.9 Kbytes) Key Overall Developments Low donor funding and continuing fighting and conflict, have placed millions of...

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Harakat Al-Shabab Mujahideen Forces Closes Down Local FM Radio in Baidoa Town

Somalia — Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen fighters have closed down Warsan radio, one of the local FM radios in Baidoa town in southern Somalia, eyewitnesses told Shabelle radio on Thursday. Reports from the town say that the...

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