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SOMALIA Somalia: Interview with Somali music shop owner in exile Interview with Fatma Adow who is one of 25 women who on November 2008 faced the wrath of Somali militiamen the for taking part in a folklore dance galore in Somalia 10 February 2010 Somalia: Rule no 1: "Music should not be aired" On 15 September 2009, the newly appointed information officer in Belet-Hawo town published a list of edicts the Al-Shabaab want to see implemented in the media 05 October 2009 Somalia: Religious groups stop music at weddings with violence Somalia experiences an on-going struggle over the right to listen to music and dance to it. These are the latest two reports in international media 24 August 2009 Somalia: Music suppressor elected as president The Islamist cleric who was elected as Somalia’s new president on 31 January 2009 has a long history of silencing musical expression in Somalia, writes Wa'ays 11 February 2009 Somalia: Two radio stations closed down for airing music Somali Islamist groups have unleashed a renewed crackdown on radio stations in the areas under their control for airing music and music-related programmes. 29 December 2008 Somalia: 32 traditional dancers lashed in public On 14 November 2008 an Islamist group arrested and whipped 25 women and seven men because they had been singing and dancing 18 November 2008 Somalia: Attacks on music practitioners Report of a one-day seminar about music censorship and attacks on music practitioners in Somalia, held at Hotel Sahafi in the Somali capital Mogadishu, on 3 July 2008 09 October 2008 Somalia: Musician gunned down by militiamen On 21 July 2008, militiamen from the Somali Islamist groups, armed with pistols, gunned down musician Omar Nur Basharah in the capital Mogadishu 23 July 2008 Somalia / Somaliland: University students obstructed music event The students of the University of Hargeisa rejected and obstructed a celebration for the World Music Day, which was scheduled to take place on 21 June 2008 08 July 2008 Somalia: Bloodshed continues and music disappears Radical Islamist groups have unleashed a renewed crackdown on music, cinemas, and music-related events 04 July 2008 Somalia: Musician murdered by men armed with knives In the early hours of 18 June 2008, the musician Abdulkadir Adow Ali was stabbed to death in Mogadishu 20 June 2008 Somalia: 30 musicians lashed by religious militia 12 years ago Somali woman singer tells the untold story of how, in 1996, local Islamic court's militia raided a concert in Mogadishu, and sentenced the musicians to 20 lashes each 10 June 2008 Somalia: Dilemmas facing Somali music and musicians Somali musicians struggle with financial hardships and self-censorship issues, and some are dying of hunger and diseases in Somalia 23 April 2008 Somalia: Young rap group rails against conservative Somali Muslims Waayaha Cusub, a group of young Somali refugee musicians in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, advocates freedom of musical expression in Somalia 12 June 2007 Maryam Mursal Video interview with Somali singer Maryam Mursal about music prohibition among Islamists 26 October 2006 Somalia: Confusion over music prohibition Do Islamist hardliners want to stop all music and sentence executives of a music committee to death? Or is the story invented with the purpose of making it possible to get asylum and economic aid? 26 October 2006 Somalia: Islamists ban music in areas of Somalia According to an Islamic official in Somalia, music is now banned in the country, and anyone violating the music ban could be arrested, fined and flogged. Initially, a Somali radio station has been closed down for broadcasting love songs 12 September 2006