Mogadishu (RBC) On November 13, 2013, the Jubba administration in Kismayo closed down a newly opened radio station, the Radio voice of Somalia, an independent and privately owned radio station on November 13, 2013. The radio station was officially granted license by the administration and was being tested when police raided the radio station and confiscated the equipment and briefly detained the radio director Mohamed Abdi Aynte.
On the evening of 13 November, armed militias attacked the house of the director of the radio, Mohamed Abdi Aynte, although he narrowly escaped the attack. NUSOJ condemns the violent attacks against the radio station and calls for the Jubba administration to respect the freedom of the press and the freedom of expression and allow the radio station to operate freely without fear of reprisals. NUSOJ reiterates its call to provide the media workers a safe environment which they can exercise their granted basic freedoms.
On November 8, 2013, a Somali journalist, Abdinur Abdikadir Mohamed, a reporter for the public radio, Bar-Kulan was slightly injured at the
right leg and the right ear by a shrapnel, following a suicide attack on Maka Al Mukarama Hotel in Mogadishu on the evening of November 8, 2013 which claimed the lives of at least 6 people and wounded dozens others. Mr. Mohamed was rushed to a hospital for treatment and he is currently recovering. NUSOJ wishes immediately recovery
On November 4, 2013 Somali police briefly arrested Mohamed Salaad Osman, a reporter for the Goobjoog Radio, a privately owned radio station based in Mogadishu. Mr. Osman was arrested after he tried to photograph on evictions carried out by the police. His camera and radio recorder was confiscated and was arrested at the Central station in Hamarweyne for 2 hours. The union officials communicated officially to the police regarding the journalist’s case and was released shortly.
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