Horseed Media

In June 2007 the deputy director of Horseed, Abdulkadir Mohamed Nunow, was arrested and held for one day after interviewing kidnapped westerners.

The International Federation of Journalists condemned the attack and urged the Puntland authorities to investigate the incident and bring the perpetrators to account.

[5] On August 9, 2017, the semi-autonomous Puntland administration detained Horseed Media journalist Omar Saeed Mohammed without charges.

[7] Nine junior and mid-level print and broadcast journalists representing media organizations in Bahrain, Brazil, Gabon, Israel, Jordan, Saint Kitts & Nevis, Somalia, South Africa, and Turkey took part in the program.

[2] The European Journalism Centre’s MediaLandscape.Org recognized Horseed Media in 2018 as one of the “constantly reliable” Somali news websites out of hundreds they have evaluated.