Radio Mogadishu

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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
Language

Radio Mogadishu (

radio station of Somalia.[2]

History

Analog reels at Radio Mogadishu headquarters.

Established in 1951 during the period of the Italian run UN

Amharic and Oromo.[6]

After closing down operations due to the

Radio Mogadishu analog-to-digital machine.

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. In the late 2000s, the station also launched a complementary website of the same name, with news items in Somali,

Arabic and English.[9] In 2013 Radio Mogadishu started the process of digitization of its archives, which dates back from 1951.[10]

In October 2021 it was announced by the

Italian embassy
in Mogadishu.

From January 1, 2022, broadcasts in Italian begin, every day from 2.30 pm to 3.00 pm with a short news program, a musical program and various features.

Staff

Current
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. ^ SOMALIA: TNG launches “Radio Mogadishu”
  8. ^ a b c d e "Reporters In Somali City Risk Life To Cover Story". NPR. Archived from the original on 2023-05-31.
  9. ^ Radio Muqdisho.net Archived 2010-11-27 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ "Radio Mogadishu archives get digitized". UN Audiovisual Library. 16 November 2013. Retrieved 22 June 2021.

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