Freelance journalist Oldon is freed after spending one year and 49 days in Somaliland jail
Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) welcomes the release of journalist Abdimalik Muse Oldon from the jail in Hargeisa on Saturday 6 June, 2020 after spending one year and 49 days in prison.
Somaliland police in Burao arrested freelance journalist Oldon on 17 April 2019 over critical Facebook articles....
Somaliland President : Somalia Is Biggest Challenge to Our Recognition
By: Mohamed Olad Hassan, Sahra Idle Nur
Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi says authorities in Mogadishu pose the biggest challenge for the autonomous region’s fight for recognition as an independent state, 29 years after the region broke away from Somalia after the overthrow of military ruler...
Somaliland Frees Humanitarian Journalist Abdimalik Muse Oldon
By:Jama Farah , HornDiplomat Contributor
Humanitarian Journalist Abdimalik Sh. Muse Oldoon was on Saturday released in a presidential pardon a year into a three year jail term.
On April 17, Abdilmalik Oldon was arrested in Buroa City .
On July 2019, Hargeisa regional court sentenced Journalist Abdimalik...
Abiy Ahmed helps Somaliland put more facts on the ground
BY: INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES
On 1 June, Somaliland’s President Muse Bihi Abdi officially inaugurated the first 12 km of Berbera Corridor, a trade and transport route that connects landlocked Ethiopia to Somaliland’s Port of Berbera on the Gulf of Aden.
The Addis Ababa-Berbera highway is...
Djibouti approves construction of Grand Bara solar power plant
By:constructionreviewonline
The construction of the Grand Bara solar power plant has been green-lighted by the government of the Republic of Djibouti, following the adoption of a preliminary assessment of the project.
Located at the Grand Bara region, of the East African country situated at the horn...
FESOJ Concludes COVID-19 Somali Media Coverage Monitoring
The Federation of Somali Journalists (FESOJ) has finalized a month-long effort to monitor and analyze local media coverage of the coronavirus pandemic in Somalia.
By the end of this month, FESOJ plans to publish the first report highlighting firsthand findings and analysis of COVID-19 media...
PRESS RELEASE: Misinformation leads to increasing COVID-19 stigma in sub-Saharan Africa
By: Save the Children
Save the Children assessments of over 3000 people find stigmatisation of COVID-19 risks hindering efforts to slow the spread of the virus
Several rapid assessments carried out by Save the Children in April, along with increasing anecdotal reports from staff, indicate...
IOM Hands Over 20 ventilators and other medical supplies to Somalia Govt
Mogadishu – Ventilators to treat COVID-19 patients are being supplied by IOM, the International Organization for Migration, to help thousands of Somali’s affected by the disease.
The ventilators, donated to the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS), and funded by the multi-donor Somalia Humanitarian Fund (SHF), will be used...
Somaliland records 18 new COVID-19 cases as tally rises to 376
By: MoDuale
Somaliland’s health ministry on Wednesday confirmed 18 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total tally of infections to 376.
Dr Mohamed Abdi Hergeye, The director-general of the ministry of health said the majority of the latest cases were recorded in Hargeisa which have 13...
Ethiopia receives Chinese donation of 520,000 masks, medical supplies
By: Xinhua
Ethiopia received on Tuesday the donation of 520,000 masks and other medical supplies from five Chinese business companies and Dongguan municipal government.
The COVID-19 medical supplies donation to Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa city administration which also includes a large number of disinfectants, forehead thermometers and...
