Breaking News: Goobjoog Journalist detained in Mogadishu

A journalist working with Goobjoog MediaGroup was on Tuesday night arrested by the security forces in Somalia’s capital city, Mogadishu.

Abdiweli Jama’a Barre, who is a producer at  Goobjoog FM has been detained together with another freelance journalist identified  as Zakaria Hussein.

The motive behind the arrest of the two journalists remains.

Goobjoog Media Group officials urge the government to release the journalists.

Somali journalists are encountering many difficulties including killings, arrests, forced closures of media outlets, threats, and occasionally, criminal charges.

Two journalists were killed in Mogadishu this year 2016 and only the last three weeks 10 journalists were arrested in Somalia despite several days and hours later released without charge, according to the National Union of Somali Journalists.

The latest being the two Journalists who were detained in Jowhar as four others in Kismayo.