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Voice of America (VOA or VoA) is an international broadcasting state media network funded by the federal government of the United States of America. It is the largest and oldest of the U.S. international broadcasters. [3] [4] [5] VOA produces digital, TV, and radio content in 48 languages, which it distributes to affiliate stations around the ...
The BBC Somali Service is a BBC World Service radio station transmitted in the Somali language and based in Broadcasting House in West London and in Nairobi, where most of the radio and digital operations are based. Most of the listeners live in the Horn of Africa and nearby regions. [1]
Abdirahman Yabarow (Somali: Cabdiraxmaan Yabarow, Arabic: عبد الرحمن يابارو) is a Somali journalist. He hails from the Abgaal Hawiye clan. [1] In the early 2000s, Yabarow worked in the UNDP's Documentation Unit. [2] He later served as a Washington, D.C. correspondent for the BBC's Somali service. [3]
Radio Gaalkacyo, formerly known as Radio Free Somalia, operates from Galkayo in the north-central Mudug province, as does Codka Nabada (Voice of Peace), [24] and Radio Hage. [8] Other radio stations broadcasting from Puntland include Radio Hikma, Radio Badhan and Somali Public Radio.
Hitradio Namibia: first commercial German-language radio station in Namibia, broadcasting in the central and coastal areas as well as by a live stream. Channel 7 : Broadcasting on 104.5 FM in Windhoek.
In the late 2000s, Radio Mogadishu also launched a complementary website of the same name, with news items in Somali, Arabic and English. [ 21 ] Other radio stations based in Mogadishu include radio Dalsan, [ 22 ] Mustaqbal Media corporation and the Shabelle Media Network , the latter of which was in 2010 awarded the Media of the Year prize by ...
Prior to Mogadishu's pacification by the Somali National Army in mid-2011, the independent Radio Shabelle, among other Somali media outlets, was frequently targeted by Islamist militants. [5] Among the casualties during this most volatile 2007 to 2011 period was Radio Shabelle's acting manager, Bashir Nur Gedi, who was killed on October 19 ...
Prior to the Somali Army's ultimate pacification of the capital in August 2011, Radio Mogadishu operated from a walled compound guarded by armed soldiers. The station's staff routinely broadcast news, talk shows and music despite threats of violence. [8] Radio Mogadishu presently broadcasts from downtown Mogadishu.