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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]
A new role was created and advertised for a joint Swahili and Somali service based in Nairobi, Kenya. Caroline Karobia was named editor of the new service. In June 2017, the BBC decided to split the Swahili and Somali services. In August 2017, Abdullahi Abdi Sheikh was appointed as Editor, BBC Somali Service.
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 ...
After World War II was started the newspaper "Corriere della Somalia" in Italian & English, [39] that was the main newspaper in Somalia even during the Italian Trust Territory of Somaliland when was printed in Italian with a few pages in Arabic. [40] During the Barre regime from 1969 to 1991 there were up to five newspapers in the country.
Harun Maruf is a renowned Somali journalist based in Washington DC who works for Voice of America, he has also worked for Associated Press and BBC. He co-authored the book Inside Al Shabaab . Background
Established in 1943 in the former British Somaliland protectorate as the first Somali language station, it broadcasts mostly in Somali but also features news bulletins in Amharic, Arabic and English. The channel was responsible for the widespread propagation of the new Balwo genre developed by Abdi Sinimo and the Heellooy oud music that ...
United Nations Operation in Somalia I (UNOSOM I) was the first part of a United Nations (UN) sponsored effort to provide, facilitate, and secure humanitarian relief in Somalia, as well as to monitor the first UN-brokered ceasefire of the Somali Civil War conflict in the early 1990s.
The South-West State of Somalia (Somali: - Koonfur Galbeed), (Af-Maay: Koofur Orsé), is a Federal Member State in southwestern Somalia. It was founded by Hasan Muhammad Nur Shatigadud, leader of the Somalia RRA on 1 April 2002. [1] [2] It was the third autonomous region to be established.