Monitoring press freedom and international affairs from Mid-Missouri Public Radio and the Missouri School of Journalism
Shabab press officer sentenced in deaths of 6 Somali journalists
By  • 7 March 2016
A Somali military court has sentenced a former journalist turned media officer for a radical Islamist militant group to death for his role in the deaths of at least five Somali journalists. Hassan Hanafi, 30, a popular…
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Somali journalists face threats from Islamists and government
By , • 12 February 2016
A leader of a Somali journalists' group speaks out on a country that has become a killing field for journalists. Somalia has been a failed state for more than 24-years, and the country's lengthy civil…
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The dangers of reporting in Somalia
By  • 12 February 2016
For much of its population, Somalia is a difficult and dangerous place to live. That’s particularly true for reporters. Practicing journalism in a failed state means facing threats from any number of militia groups. That…
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Mogadishu car bomb kills Somali journalist
By  • 8 December 2015
A car bomb in the Somali capital Mogadishu has killed a broadcast journalist who was the widow of another reporter killed three years earlier in a suicide attack on a café in the same city. Hindiya…
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