Somalia: HRDs in Somalia face multiple challenges including serious threats, targeted killing, arbitrary arrests, as the war on freedom of expression rages and HRDs in the Somalia are reporting about how they are targeted with arbitrary arrests, torture and targeted killing by alshabab and the central authorities and security forces. HRDs have reported several accounts of arbitrary …
AMNESTY INTERNATIONALPRESS RELEASESub-Saharan Africa: The devastating impact of conflicts compounded by COVID-19 Sub-Saharan Africa: The devastating impact of conflicts compounded by COVID-19 Pandemic hits those shackled by oppression hardest thanks to decades of inequalities, neglect and abuseIt lays bare massive systemic inequality with marginalized communities, unemployed people, health workers, and women among the most …
Somalia – Witnesses & survivors of alshabab’s merciless terrorists’ rampant attack on the following districts of Leego, Yaaqbiri Wayne, Goobaanle, & Beledul Amiin narrate harrowing accounts of people being killed, women being raped, children being kidnapped, houses, stores & cars being burnt down to ashes, camels and other livestock being robbed and drink wells being …
Horn Afrik News Agency for Human Rights HANAHR online editor (I. Adam) has interviewed Mary Lawlor via zoom directly in Geneva. Mary Lawlor UN Special Rapporteur on HRDs situation, has said in the interview with HANAHR, ” I am recently appointed as the UN special rapporteur on HRDs situation in the world. I am firstly …
Media InfrastructureIn SomaliaPrepared by: I. Adam & Sh. Abdirahman Horn Afrik News Agency for Human Rights HANAHR www.hanahr.net23.01.2021 I. Introduction and Brief History Internet usage in Somalia grew 39.9% iin the last five years, registering the highest in Africa.Source: Internet Usage Statistics for Africa Communication in the Somali society has been transmitted orally for a …
2011 witnessed the begining of the popualr Arab spring which led to the death of Libya`s president Muammer Alghadafi, and the total destruction of Libya`s governmental institutions. Simulteniously Syria`s civil war commenced as a result of a continued demonstraions, and civil unrest. This led to the displacement of millions of refugees internally, and externally, which …
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Mogadishu, January 20, 2021 – Authorities in the semi-autonomous Somali state of Puntland should immediately and unconditionally release journalist Kilwe Adan Farah, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On December 27, 2020, intelligence personnel in Garowe, the capital of Puntland, detained Kilwe, who runs the Facebook-based news outlet Kilwe Media Inc, according to posts by his outlet …
Somalia (Puntland region): Journalist Kilwe Adan Farah detained, accused of murder. Read More »
Please read the report in this link : https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2021/country-chapters/somalia#
omalia – HANAHR relocates a women human rights defender with the full support of Urgen Action Fund Africa. Horn Afrik News Agency for Human Rights (HANAHR) …
A U.S. AIRSTRIKE targeting al-Shabab militants in Somalia last week killed a child and an elderly man, relatives of the dead and a Somali lawmaker told The Intercept. A U.S. Africa Command press release issued the day of the strike near Janaale, a town about 60 miles south of the Somali capital Mogadishu, said that five “terrorists” were killed …
U.S. AIRSTRIKE IN SOMALIA KILLED TWO CIVILIANS, RELATIVES SAY Read More »