Fighting for journalists' Rights, Development, freedoms and safety

The South/Central journalists whose numbers are gradually increasing need skills and knowledge empowerment to enable them do their daily activities with confidence and professionalism hence defend their rights within ethical line in their field of profession.

The media can participate in the reconstruction of a nation and heal the wounds sustained during the civil war, but if the journalists use it in the opposite way it can cause a catastrophe, so that they need to build their capacity humanly and materially.

So that there are now many radio stations and journalists organizations in Somalia have look the following Big media stations and journalists organizations in Somalia.:

Mogadishu Big Radio Stations

1- Horn Afrik Radion

2- Shabelle Radio

3- Simba Radio

4- Banaadir Radio

5- Somali-weyn Radio

Puntland Big Radio Stations

1- SBC Radio

2- Garowe Radio

3- Daljir Radio

4- Radio Galka'yo

Somaliland Big Radio Statios

Coming soon

Somali Big Journalists Organizations

1-  Somali Coalition for Freedom of Expression (SOCFEX) http://www.socfex.com .

2- Women Journalists in Action (WOJA)  http://wojasom.org .

3- National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) http://www.nusoj.org .

4- Somali Journalists Society (SJS) http://www.somalijournalists.org .

5- Associated Somali Journalists (ASOJ) http://www.asoj.org .

6- Somali Media Center (SOMEC) http://www.somalimedia.org

7- Somali Journalists Rights Agency (SOJRA) http://www.sojra.org

FREE EXPRESSION SPOTLIGHT:

SOJRA pressures the Puntland Foreign Relation Minister that Puntland Administration to stop the pressure and arresting against the Puntland Journalists

Al-shabaab Group continues media transgressions in coastal town of Kismayo in southern Somalia

SOJRA lashing to Somali Red Crescent (SRC) in Las Anod in sol-region of Somalia

Somalia continues to be a treacherous place for the journalists who risk their lives to bring the story of the ongoing conflict to the world 27-July, 2008 

Call for international support to make for journalism safer in Somalia, Africa’s most dangerous country for journalists and the world’s deadliest place for media professionals behind Iraq-11 August, 2008