Radio Mogadishu

Radio Mogadishu
TypeBroadcast
Country
Somalia
First air date
1951
AvailabilityNational
HeadquartersMogadishu, Somalia
OwnerFederal Government of Somalia Director: Abdiaziz Afrika
Launch date
1951
Official website
Radio Muqdisho
LanguageSomali, Arabic, English, Italian[1]

Radio Mogadishu (Somali: Radio Muqdisho, Arabic: راديو مقديشو) is the federal government-run radio station of Somalia.[2]

History

Established in 1951 during the period of the Italian run UN Trust Territory of Somaliland, Radio Mogadishu initially broadcast news items in both Somali and Italian.[3][4][5] Radio Mogadishu was modernized with Russian assistance following independence in 1960, and began offering home service in Somali, Amharic and Oromo.[6]

The station was a focal point in rising political tensions between UNOSOM II and the Somali National Alliance during mid-1993. It was the site of the 5 June 1993 clash that resulted in the initiation of a UNOSOM military offensive and emergence of an anti-US/UN insurgency in Mogadishu.[7]

After closing down operations due to the civil war that broke out in 1991, the station was officially re-opened in 23 August 2001 by the Transitional National Government of former President of Somalia Abdiqasim Salad Hassan.[8]

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.[9]

Radio Mogadishu presently broadcasts from downtown Mogadishu. In the late 2000s, the station also launched a complementary website of the same name, with news items in Somali, Arabic and English.[10] In 2013 Radio Mogadishu started the process of digitization of its archives, which dates back from 1951.[11]

Staff

Current
  • Abdiaziz M Guled Afrika, director[9]
  • Abdilahi Qorshe, Chief Editor[9]
  • Mohamed Kaafi Sheikh Abukar Editor of Planning [9]
Former

See also

References

  1. ^ "Radio Mogadiscio torna a parlare italiano: "Ma non è colonialismo"". www.repubblica.it (in Italian). 4 January 2022. Retrieved 2022-01-04.
  2. ^ Somali PM: Anyone in gov't who commits corruption will be brought to justice Archived 2011-05-15 at the Wayback Machine https://mareeg.com/radio-mogadishu-expanded-to-reach-more-cities/ Archived 2020-09-25 at the Wayback Machine Mareeg Media
  3. ^ World radio TV handbook, (Billboard Publications., 1955), p.77.
  4. ^ "A Guiding Voice Amid the Ruins of a Capital City". The New York Times. March 30, 2010. Archived from the original on August 20, 2023. Retrieved August 25, 2023.
  5. ^ "Radio Muqdisho". Radio Muqdisho. April 9, 2022. Archived from the original on August 22, 2023. Retrieved August 25, 2023.
  6. ^ Thomas Lucien Vincent Blair, Africa: a market profile, (Praeger: 1965), p.126.
  7. ^ Oakley, Robert B. (1995). Somalia and Operation Restore Hope: Reflections on Peacemaking and Peacekeeping. United States: United States Institute of Peace Press. pp. 115–121. ISBN 1878379410.
  8. ^ SOMALIA: TNG launches “Radio Mogadishu”
  9. ^ a b c d e "Reporters In Somali City Risk Life To Cover Story". NPR. Archived from the original on 2023-05-31.
  10. ^ Radio Muqdisho.net Archived 2010-11-27 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ "Radio Mogadishu archives get digitized". UN Audiovisual Library. 16 November 2013. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
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