Radio Mogadishu

Radio Mogadishu
Industry Broadcasting
Founded 1951
Headquarters Mogadishu, Somalia
Services Radio Mogadishu, Radio Muqdisho.net
Website Radio Muqdisho.net

Radio Mogadishu is the federal government-run radio station of Somalia.[1]

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History

Established during the colonial period in Italian Somaliland, Radio Mogadishu initially broadcasted news items in both Somali and Italian.[2] The station was modernized with Russian assistance following independence in 1960, and began offering home service in Somali, Amharic and Oromo.[3]

After closing down operations due to the civil war that broke out in 1991, the station was officially re-opened in the early 2000s by the Transitional National Government of former President of Somalia, Abdiqasim Salad Hassan.[4] It presently broadcasts from Mogadishu, the nation's capital.

In the late 2000s, Radio Mogadishu also launched a complementary website of the same name, with news items in Somali, Arabic and English.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ Somali PM: Anyone in gov't who commits corruption will be brought to justice
  2. ^ World radio TV handbook, (Billboard Publications., 1955), p.77.
  3. ^ Thomas Lucien Vincent Blair, Africa: a market profile, (Praeger: 1965), p.126.
  4. ^ SOMALIA: TNG launches “Radio Mogadishu”
  5. ^ Radio Muqdisho.net

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