Somalia is one of the most dangerous countries for media, with rights groups saying militants are responsible for many media killings. A bombing in late October killed one journalist and injured two others, including a contributor to VOA’s Somali service. Maryan Seylac, the executive director and founder of the Somali Media Women Association, said such […]Read More
SOMWA is deeply saddened about the death of former colleague Abdullahi Jama Ali who was killed in a terror attack that happened near a busy junction in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia on Saturday 29 October 2022. The attack also claimed the lives of more than 100 people and wounded dozens more. Abdullahi Jama Ali, […]Read More
Armed with mobile phones, tripods, and laptops, the crew at Bilan Media, a Somali start-up staffed entirely by women, is on a mission to break the silence around gender violence in the troubled Horn of Africa nation. A rarity in the conservative predominantly Muslim country, Bilan (meaning “beauty” in Somali) is funded by the United […]Read More
Amplifying Women’s Stories: The Global #Mediafor1325 Award for the Implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda ConfirmationRead More
The growing popularity of digital media was supposed to give women in media visibility and safety but instead, it’s making women journalists more vulnerable. Somali female journalists are negatively affecting the increased online and offline harassment against them. The level of violence, threats of violence, and intimidation directed towards female journalists have knocked down their […]Read More
Somalia’s organization for women in the media has strongly condemned the torture by the government soldiers on journalists in Mogadishu as humiliation and an act of terror while they were on duty to report the latest attack by Al-Shabaab militants. Maryan Seylac, the executive director of Somali Media Women Association (SOMWA), said she was upset […]Read More
SOMWA is concerned over the safety of Habiba Ladan Abdi, a female journalist who has been receiving threats from the security forces in Qardho, Puntland, a member state of Somalia’s Federal government. Habiba, SBC TV journalist told SOMWA that earlier this week, the police raided both her home address and also office because of news […]Read More
LONDON (SOMWA) – A group of prominent Somali journalists gathered in London on 29 November 2021, to commemorate the death of late former Radio Mogadishu director Abdiaziz Mohamud Guled (Afrika), who was killed in a suicide car bomb last week in Mogadishu – Al-Shabaab claimed the responsibility for that attack. The attack also wounded several […]Read More
SOMWA says the female journalists in Somalia face challenges in their jobs in the field as the media authorities in the country continue to ignore the rights of the girls in the media. This comes as the world celebrated the international day of ending impunity on the crimes against journalists. Speaking to the Tubta Nabada […]Read More
Today was the international day of ending impunity for crimes against journalists. Female journalists in Somalia are being subjected to harassment while they are on duty. SOMWA is lobbying to find all means to stop the crimes against female journalists and seek justice for their share in the media. “What we need is a handful […]Read More
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