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Radio Mogadishu ( so, Radio Muqdisho, ar, راديو مقديشو) is the federal government-run
radio station Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radi ...
of
Somalia Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constituti ...
.Somali PM: Anyone in gov't who commits corruption will be brought to justice
https://mareeg.com/radio-mogadishu-expanded-to-reach-more-cities/ Mareeg Media


History

Established during the colonial period in
Italian Somaliland Italian Somalia ( it, Somalia Italiana; ar, الصومال الإيطالي, Al-Sumal Al-Italiy; so, Dhulka Talyaaniga ee Soomaalida), was a protectorate and later colony of the Kingdom of Italy in present-day Somalia. Ruled in the 19th centu ...
, Radio Mogadishu initially broadcast news items in both Somali and
Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance language *** Regional Ita ...
.''World radio TV handbook'', (Billboard Publications., 1955), p.77. Transmissions in Somali at the station first began in 1957, concurrent with the start of Somali language programming in Radio Djibouti. Radio Mogadishu was modernized with
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n assistance following independence in 1960, and began offering home service in Somali, Amharic and Oromo.Thomas Lucien Vincent Blair, ''Africa: a market profile'', (Praeger: 1965), p.126. After closing down operations due to the
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that broke out in 1991, the station was officially re-opened in 23 August 2001 by the
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of former President of Somalia Abdiqasim Salad Hassan.SOMALIA: TNG launches “Radio Mogadishu”
/ref> 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.Reporters In Somali City Risk Life To Cover Story
/ref> 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,
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and English.Radio Muqdisho.net
In 2013 Radio Mogadishu started the process of digitization of its archives, which dates back from 1951. In October 2021 it was announced by the Somali Ministry of Information that programs in Italian would be broadcast again thanks to an agreement with the
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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 *Abdiaziz M Guled Afrika, director *Abdilahi Qorshe, Chief Editor *Mohamed Kaafi Sheikh Abukar Editor of Planning ;Former * Mohamed Abshir Waldo, director * Sheik Nur Mohamed Abkey, reporter


See also

* Media of Somalia * Radio Garowe * Radio Gaalkacyo * Shabelle Media Network * Somali National Television


References


External links


Radio Muqdisho.net
Radio stations in Somalia Somali-language radio stations English-language radio stations Italian-language radio stations Arabic-language radio stations Mass media in Mogadishu 1943 establishments in Somalia {{Somalia-stub