Puntland

In Puntland, local news-reporting is a costly and risky enterprise used by local internet websites, newspapers, and local radio broadcasters. There had been a worrying avoidance of covering police misconduct by the local media, especially Bossaaso-based media. The Roobdoon observers who are studying Somali mass media and its influence on the issues that is sensitive and noticeable before the public have discovered the lack of freedom of expression in Puntland Regional State. Admittedly, only lately we, the Forum, have examined the means of coercion employed by the Duur-joog recruits in maintaining authority and in furthering the political and economic interests of the ruling junta.