There is a need to have a truce, one month truce in reporting on Somalia

[Fabregas]

http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-02-03-voa53.cf m

 

U.N. envoy Ould Abdallah noted that few international news agencies actually have reporters in Somalia, but base their stories on information supplied by Somali journalists there. He charged most of the journalists have been compromised through threats and intimidation, and called for a moratorium on second-hand reporting about events in Somalia.

 

"There is a need to have a truce, one month truce in reporting on Somalia," he said. "There is a need to double check the sources with your correspondent. Because they live under tremendous pressure. I am sure they are professionals. They would like to help their country. But the time has come for one month truce on reporting till there is double, triple checking, because Somalia is exceptional. We have to have exceptional checking of the news."

[Jacaylbaro]

Why one month ??

[Fabregas]

Yep, we should have an international peacekeeping mission of journalists sent to Somalia. Reuters, CNN, the BBC, the Christian Science monitor should alll send internationalist journalist peacekeepers to train SOmalis in journalism and protect them from their assasins. In particular, Ethiopians journalists should deliver seminars on press freedom in Adiss Ababa.