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Since its inception, the media outlet has focused on social issues, including sharing news about period poverty in Somalia and interviewing women and girls. [9] [10] It also addresses traditionally taboo subjects, such as drug use among disadvantaged people in Somalia. [2] [4] The content is distributed via radio, television, and online print ...
People often laugh when Fathi Mohamed Ahmed tells them she runs the first and only all-female newsroom in Somalia, one of the most dangerous places on the planet to be a reporter. But Bilan, the ...
The Jubaland crisis is an ongoing armed conflict in the autonomous Jubaland state of southern Somalia.It resulted from a constitutional dispute between Somali Federal Government led by President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre versus Jubaland, following the re-election of Ahmed Madobe as the state's president for a third term.
Actually there are a number of radio news agencies based in Somalia. [7] Radio is the most important and effective communication channel in the country and the most popular type of mass media. [ 8 ] In total, about one short-wave and over ten private FM radio stations broadcast from the capital, with several radio stations airing from the ...
A violent clash over the weekend between two clans in central Somalia has killed at least 55 people and injured another 155, residents and medical officials said on Monday. Somalia's federal ...
This isn’t the first time Somalia has experienced famine. A 2011 famine in the country claimed the lives of 260,000 people, more than half of them children under the age of 6.
About 97.9% of Somalia's women and girls underwent female genital mutilation in a 2005 study. This was at the time the world's highest prevalence rate of the procedure. [23] A UNICEF 2010 report reported that Somalia had the world's highest rate of Type III FGM, with 79% of all Somali women having undergone the procedure.
By ALEXIS BENVENISTE Female genital mutilation is a huge problem in Somalia. In fact, UNICEF reported that 95 percent of the country's females between the ages of 4 and 11 undergo the process.