"And also, I react to this as a journalist -- an interchange of information and ideas between government and the news media is indispensable to a functioning democracy, and if you start scaring sources with the possibility of years in prison, the loser is not going to be the news media -- it's going to be the public, " he said.

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According to Howlett, the long term solution is a stable, functioning and effective government in Somalia.

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