Somalia: The Journalists Who Disappeared

In October 2022, Abdalle Ahmed Mumin — Secretary-General of the Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS), the organisation that documents what happens to journalists in Somalia — arrived at Aden Adde International Airport in Mogadishu carrying a ticket to Nairobi. He was travelling to seek medical care for injuries he had sustained during a previous detention. He did not make his flight. According to documentation by the SJS and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), NISA officers detained him at the departure gate without a warrant, without stated charges, and without notifying his family or his organisation of where he was being […] The post Somalia: The Journalists Who Disappeared appeared first on African Arguments.