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MOGADISHU (AXADLE) Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) has completed the fourth round of a series of trainings to improve the safety and security of Somali journalists and media freedom with support from the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI) in Baidoa, South West Somalia. The training program, which ran from July 2021 to February 2022, has benefited more than 90 local journalists in five regions of Somalia: Banadir, Hirshabelle, Puntland, Galmudug and South West State. Almost 40% of the…

NAIROBI (AXADLE) Germany is providing € 20 million in aid through the United Nations to alleviate the suffering of the ongoing severe drought in parts of Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia. Following a historic drought, the UN estimates that around 13 million people are at risk of starvation. In Somalia, 1.4 million people are estimated to be displaced due to the current drought, and 7.7 million, half of the population, are in need of humanitarian assistance. There has been almost no rainfall in…

MOGADISHU (AXADLE) Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) and Somali Media Association (SOMA) deplore the brutal attack by the Turkish-trained Haramcad police force against journalists covering militant attacks in Mogadishu on Wednesday, February 16, 2022. Around 9am on Wednesday, a group of local journalists went to report car bombing and gunfire at several police stations and security checkpoints in Somalia's capital Mogadishu the night before. According to the journalists and the photos from the…

MOGADISHU (AXADLE) - The southwestern state has today elected seven lawmakers amid mortar shelling that killed at least one person. MOGADISHU (AXADLE) - The southwestern state has today elected seven lawmakers amid mortar shelling that killed at least one person.According to the polling station, two women were elected at the exercise.The following persons were elected as Members of Parliament today in Barawe: 1. Salim Alihow Ibrow 2. Yusuf Adan Mohamed 3. Maryan Mohamed Ali 4. Hussein Ali Haji 5. Abdullahi Omar Abshir…

ADDIS ABABA (HORNOB SERVANT) - Mrs Fiona Lortan has been appointed Deputy Special Representative of the President of the African Union Commission (DSRCC) just months after Somalia declared its predecessor Simon Mulongo a persona non by ordering him to leave the country before seven days. In a statement, the African Union Commission for Political Affairs, Peace and Security said that the new AU Special Representative was, until her current appointment, Acting Director of Conflict Management in the Political Affairs Peace…

BELEDWEYNE (AXADLE) - Somalia's Hirshabelle President Ali Gudlawe Hussein has arrived on Sunday for his first ever visit to Baladweyne City. BELEDWEYNE (AXADLE) - Somalia's Hirshabelle President Ali Gudlawe Hussein has arrived on Sunday for his first ever visit to Baladweyne City.The president and his delegation were received by Hirshabelle officials led by his deputy Yusuf Daba-geed and Hiiraan regional officials.Gudlawe is expected to hold talks with politicians, elders and intellectuals in Beledweyne city.The leader…

Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) and Somali Media Association (SOMA) call on the Galmudug authorities to investigate their Darwish police force for the raid on Sooyaal TV and Radio, a local independent media station in Abudwak city, Galgadud region, and beatings and detention director Mahad Bashir Osman for interviewing a group of police officers who went on strike on Sunday over unpaid wages. Around noon on Sunday, January 30, the heavily armed Darwish Force raided the radio station, beating…

MOGADISHU (HORNOB SERVANT) - A Swiss citizen Abdikarin Ahmedsalan Abdi, who lives in Graubünden, has succeeded in gaining protection of the terrorist group in Somalia after paying the group to threaten two defenseless families in Mogadishu, whose underage girls were raped by Abdis . adult son Mohamed Abdikarin Ahmedsalan. According to the families of the victims, the two girls, aged 10 and 11, were living with their grandmother in the Wardhigley district of Mogadishu when Ahmedsalan raped…

MOGADISHU (AXADLE) - Somalia's escalating drought is creating a massive displacement crisis. 245,000 people have already fled their homes, and the number is expected to reach 1.4 million as the drought worsens. "Somalia's drought is escalating dangerously after three failed rainy seasons and some of the lowest rainfall in 40 years," said Mohamed Abdi, country director of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) in Somalia. "Without urgent preventive action to remedy the crisis, lives will be lost."…

Mogadishu (AXADLE) - Somali and Djibouti governments have deported more than 387 Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) members over the past 20 years, the group's spokesman confirmed. ONLF is a rebel group that had been fighting Ethiopian forces in the east of the country for more than three decades to secede from Ethiopia. Abdikadir Hassan Hirmoge spoke to the BBC Somali Service, a spokesman for the ONLF, and said that at least top officials from the group in Mogadishu had been handed over to…