Since its establishment, Horseed Media has made an extensive contribution in highlighting the socio-economic issues in the country, media skills development and advocating for democracy and human rights. Horseed Media journalists have faced hostilities and censorship from the authorities in Somalia. In June 2007 the deputy director of Horseed, Abdulkadir Mohamed Nunow, was arrested and held for one day after interviewing kidnapped westerners. On October 18, 2010, a bomb attack on the headquarters of Horseed Media radio in Bosaso destroyed the reception office of the radio; journalists and staff members who were at the studio at the time of the attack escaped unhurt, however. The
International Federation of Journalists condemned the attack and urged the Puntland authorities to investigate the incident and bring the perpetrators to account. In October 2012, the Puntland administration shut down the Horseed Media radio station in
Bosaso, a move that later prompted
Reporters Without Borders to write an open letter to the then-president of Puntland,
Abdirahman Farole, requesting an explanation for the closure of the radio. On August 9, 2017, the semi-autonomous
Puntland administration detained Horseed Media journalist Omar Saeed Mohammed without charges. == Recognition ==