UNESCO, in cooperation with United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM), organised a three-day training workshop for security forces on safety of journalists and freedom of expression from...
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Director-General condemns killing of Somali journalist Abdullahi Ali Hussein
The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, today condemned the murder of online news editor Abdullahi Ali Hussein on 8 September. “I condemn the killing of Abdullahi Ali Hussein,” the...
UNESCO organized training of security forces on safety of journalists in Somalia
The representatives of the Somalian National Intelligence and Security Agency, the Ministry of Information and the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) came together in Mogadishu from 2 to 4...
Working through the Challenges: UNESCO helps bring hope and progress in Somali Education during a difficult week
Mogadishu – 20 June 2013 - More than two hundred Somali education experts gathered in Mogadishu, Somalia, for the first time in twenty years for a three day National Education Conference (NEC)...
High Level Conference in Mogadishu to discuss the future of Somali education
MOGADISHU, 18 June 2013 – More than one hundred Somali education experts are being hosted by the Somali Federal Government for a three day high level Conference in Mogadishu to discuss how to design...
KASMO FM: Somali women finally get their own radio voice
Somali’s first independent community radio station, KASMO FM, will officially be launched in Mogadishu during the International Women’s Day celebrations scheduled for 8 March 2013. The International...
UNESCO Director-General alarmed by upsurge in killing of journalists in Somalia
UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova has expressed her alarm and anger over a wave of journalist murders in Somalia in the past week. Five journalists were killed in three separate attacks occurring...
Director-General condemns murder of Somali journalist Hassan Osman Abdi and urges Somalia to improve media safety
The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, today condemned the murder of Somali journalist Hassan Osman Abdi and called for measures to improve the safety of media workers in the country. “The...
Support to IDP Education and Pupils Transition from ABE to Formal School in Puntland
This report discusses the findings and recommendations from the final evaluation of a pilot project that aimed at: (i) enabling 1,000 displaced and other vulnerable children in IDP settlements around...
UNESCO Director-General condemns bombing attack in Somalia
Paris, 4 December Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, today condemned the suicide bombing in Mogadishu (Somalia) on 3 December, which took the lives of three Transitional Federal Government...
Director-General condemns murder of Somali journalist Muktar Mohamed Hirabe
The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, today condemned an attack on 7 June on two Somali journalists in Mogadishu: Muktar Mohamed Hirabe, who died on the spot, and Ahmed Omar Hashi, who...
Director-General condemns death of Somali journalists Abdirisak Warsameh Mohamed and Nur Muse Hussein
Paris, 29 May The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, today condemned the death of two Somali journalists, Abdirisak Warsameh Mohamed, shot on a street in Mogadiscio on 22 May, and Nur...
Director-General voices concern about enduring insecurity for journalists working in Somalia
The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, today expressed dismay over the death of journalist Mohammed Abdullahi Khalif, killed in a shoot out in Galkayo, Puntland (Somalia), and voiced...