In order to effectively fight for journalists’ pay and conditions, their working rights and their professional freedom, the members of the organisation in their 2005 General Assembly in Mogadishu resolved to transform the organisation from an Association to a trade union with a new Name: the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ).
The National Union of Somali Journalists,[2] an affiliate of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), is a national trade union organisation representing over 650 of Somalia’s 1000 journalists, who established or joined the union in order to uphold and defend their interests, needs and rights cooperatively and deal with employers, authorities and other sectors in the society collectively.
Member journalists work across the whole industry as reporters, editors and sub-editors and photographers.
Members work in broadcasting, newspapers, magazines, and in the new media (news websites).
UN human rights experts[3] equally spoke out and condemned attacks against NUSOJ.