Back to school for Somalia's journalists?

 The new laws guarantee freedom of speech

After more than two decades without any regulations, Somalia's media is now bound by a new law which could put many journalists out of a job.
It stipulates that they must all have a university degree in journalism - and also pass a government test when they register with the media commission, which will soon be set up.
Some feel this is far too harsh a regulation given that during the anarchy of the long civil war, no universities offered journalism qualifications.
A university specializing in media has been established as the country emerges from years of conflict, but its students will not graduate until at least 2018.
And one-year journalism masters courses are not yet available.
"We could all be put in jail for being illegal journalists in Somalia," one colleague in the capital, Mogadishu, said.
However, others believe that given the danger of reporting in Somalia, journalists should be well qualified.