Press Freedom & Development Unit (PFDU)
Journalists safety and media freedom in Somalia is academic vital!
The entire Somali media outlets and university students of journalism classes needs to thank FESU member universities and their staff for their continued hard work in pursuit of safer working conditions for Somali journalists. We also thank the FESU Director general who is also veteran prominent journalist in across Somalia and in the world Daud Abdi Daud, for his excellent contribution to this safety sector from the universities in which collecting documenting and doing M&E in overseeing the systematic tracking and collection of data on incidents of violations against journalists and media workers.
Special thanks go to Dr Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova, who heads safetyofjournalists.org – a joint initiative between the University of Liverpool and the Worlds of Journalism Study, in co-operation with UNESCO and Reader in Global Journalism and Media at the University of Liverpool and Central and Eastern Europe Regional Co-Lead in the Worlds of Journalism Study and the Journalism Safety Research Network.
This section will do monitoring and evaluation reports in each 3months of the year and by publishing also a research paper report about the safety and the freedom of the journalists in across Somalia.
For more details please don’t hesitate to contact us via email at director@fesu.so