Radio Mogadishu

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

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. Radio Mogadishu was modernized with Russian assistance following independence in 1960, and began offering home service in Somali, Amharic and Oromo.
The station was a focal point in rising political tensions between United Nations Operation in [Somalia II|UNOSOM II] and the Somali National Alliance during mid-1993. It was the site of the June 1993 attack on [Pakistani military in Somalia|5 June 1993 clash] that resulted in the initiation of a UNOSOM military offensive and emergence of an anti-US/UN insurgency in Mogadishu.
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.
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.
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. In 2013 Radio Mogadishu started the process of digitization of its archives, which dates back from 1951.

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