media landscape guide about Somalia - Internews

Programming includes news, sports, educational items, human rights, healthwomen, youth and children’s issues, anti-piracy items and slots encouragingenvironmental protection.The station’s main daily news programmes go out at 13.00 and 22.00Radio Daljir rebroadcasts the VOA Somali Service.In late 2011, it was planning to start broadcasting programmes produced byRadio Ergo.Radio Daljir also produces some programmes in Boston in the United States.These aim to link members of the Somali diaspora in North America with thecommunities they came from in Somalia.Daljir says these programmes “are intended to make sure the voices ofeducated men and women in the diaspora are often heard in our cities andtowns.”The station is on air for about 17 hours per day.Radio Daljir is popular within Puntland and is considered to be largelyimpartial in its news coverage.The station has attacked the Puntland administration over issues ofgovernance and corruption and was briefly shut down by the PuntlandRegional Authority in June 2010.Its offices have also suffered several bomb and grenade attacks.In August 2010, one of Radio Daljir’s journalists was stabbed to death in thedivided city of Galkayo on the border with Gamudug.Radio Daljir has worked with aid agencies including UNESCO’s CivicEducation Programme for Peace, Democracy and Development, UNICEF andthe International Organization for Migration (IOM).It has broadcast programmes sponsored by IOM aimed at combatting thehuman trafficking of illegal immigrants to Yemen on overcrowded boats, manyof which sink with a heavy loss of life.Radio Daljir also works with Somali NGOs (local and diaspora) including theYamayska Foundation, which focuses on conflict prevention.42