Mogadishu – Sitting in a small, windowless room in a government building in the Somali capital, Mohamed Yusuf Mohamed loops another audio tape onto the dilapidated...
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Most people living in advanced economies take literacy, the ability to read and write, for granted. But this skill is not a given in many developing countries, including in Somaliland, in the Horn of Africa. This is a country struggling under the...
Digital hopes
In the ensuing years, Radio Mogadishu has made further progress.
In the late 2000s, it launched a website of the same name, with news articles in Somali, Arabic and English. In 2021, the Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism (MoICT) – which oversees the national radio...
Mogadishu – Sitting in a small, windowless room in a government building in the Somali capital, Mohamed Yusuf Mohamed loops another audio tape onto the dilapidated machine and presses a few buttons.
After a few clicks, the antiquated device starts to whir and its wheels spin – one tape down...
Saturday October 21, 2023
Two years after fleeing the drought-depressed rural areas of Mudug, where his livestock were dying, Omar Mohamed Hussein is now a trained electrician in Galkayo, earning enough to support his family back at home.
Omar, 30, completed a free training course offered by...
Hanan Neji said she was pleased with her performance
The top student in this year’s national exams in Ethiopia has said she is "very pleased".
Hanan Neji may have excelled, but overall the national performance was one of the worst the country has ever seen.
Many Ethiopians have been...
Reham Ibrahim Anshur (C) participates in the clean-up campaign of Mogadishu's Liido beach in Somalia, Sept. 29, 2023. Somali youth have launched a campaign against the littering of plastic waste on the beaches of the capital, Mogadishu, infusing vitality into marine ecosystems that support...
I don’t think it’s due to ethio-semites because if we absorbed some of them then we would have some omotic ancestry since they’re admixed with omotic and it’s basically non existent in ethnic Somalis. I feel like it might’ve been from direct migration from Arabia...
Ancient stone tablet written in wadaad
we’ll probably find more of these and possibly older Somali scripts when we do more archaeological excavations around the country
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