Press Release: Journalists link Dahabshiil to the death of Waagacusub and Sunatimes journalists – Facts Asoj.org – Three men, armed with pistols stopped Abdirahman Mohamed Ali, Director of Waagacusub media, together with a man and a woman near the blood factory in Mogadishu Suqa Holaha district on 26 September, 2012. The armed men forced abdirahman [...]
Information technology at the heart of Kenya’s improving education system Beeldeeq.com:-Kenya is on course to achieve the United Nations’ second Millennium Development Goal by attaining universal primary education by 2015. With a net enrolment rate of 93 percent in primary schools, Kenya’s primary education has grown phenomenally in the last decade. At the heart of [...]
French foreign minister Alain Juppé opposes arming opposition groups in Syria Beeldeeq.com:-France is against foreign powers arming the opposition groups fighting Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, because such a move could lead to civil war in the country, Foreign Minister Alain Juppé said on Thursday. In 2011, France helped arm the Libyan rebels who overthrew [...]
A military instructor clad in fatigues and boots who barks out orders to men half her age has become the unlikely star of a European Union program to train thousands of Somali troops. Nearly 98 percent of the trainees in the six-month class being held in a remote Ugandan village are men, but it [...]
The Military Historical Museum of Germany invites Mohamed Shidane Daban the program Officer of Somali Online Media and Journalists Association (SOMJA) to lecture about Somali Human Rights Violation and freedom of speech on Monday, 07, May 2012. The Museum of Military History, the Militärhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr (MHM) in Dresden, Germany. The new MHM consists [...]
The Independent Thursday, February 23, 2012 British backing for African forces tackling Islamist insurgents will be doubled today as more than 50 countries head to London to discuss ways of stabilising the country. David Cameron will open the conference with a warning that the turbulence in the failed state threatens the security both of [...]
Newstime Africa Thursday, February 23, 2012 The international community has failed to grapple with the real underlying political and economic issues facing the troubled East African nation of Somalia, which has been surviving without an effective government for over two decades, according to a new study released here. With the country’s 3,300-km coastline virtually unprotected, [...]
The Guardian Thursday, February 23, 2012 Government denies it is intending to shut Dadaab camp at London conference. The Kenyan government has denied it is planning to close the world’s largest refugee camp, playing down suggestions that President Mwai Kibaki might do so during his visit to London. Kibaki is currently in the UK for [...]
Celebrations underway in many parts of the world as the staff of radio Kulmiye KNN commemorating the first anniversary of the KNN radio station in Mogadishu, which began its broadcasting on 9 February 2011, according to the board of directors of the organization’s regional offices and parts of the world, the celebrations are going in [...]
Member of Somali Online Media and Journalists Association (Somja), Mr. Mohamed Shidane Dabaan, who is among Somali Exiled Journalists and lives in Sweden has thanked for CPJ, ARD Colleagues, UNHCR and Sweden Government for their Humanitarian assistance and protection. The following report is written by CPJ. By Sheryl A. Mendez/Journalist Assistance Program Associate Somalia was among [...]