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Director – Mowlid Haji AbdiMob: +252 90 799 628,+252 90 759 628Tel: +252 5 824 012Email: webmaster@allsbc.comsbcsomalia@gmail.comAddress: SBC Building, Airport Road, Bossasso, PuntlandHorseed Radio 89.2 FM www.horseedmedia.netHorseed Radio broadcasts from Bossasso and claims to reach audienceswithin a 150 km radius of the city.It has a reputation for accurate and balanced reporting.The radio station’s parent company, Horseed Media, was set up by membersof the Somali diaspora in Finland and the Netherlands.Horseed means “leader” in Somali.The station broadcasts programmes on human rights, peace promotion, youthand gender issues, music and culture.It also relays programmes produced by Radio Ergo.The station’s stated aim is to advocate peace and development throughbalanced and accurate reporting.Its website provides live streaming and written news from all over Somalia inSomali and English.Horseed has repeatedly come under threat from the Puntland RegionalAuthority and its journalists are regularly harassed.In August 2010, Puntland Regional Authority police stormed the radio station’sheadquarters building in Bossasso and arrested a number of journalists.One, who had broadcast an interview with the leader of a local Islamist rebelmovement, was subsequently jailed on anti-terrorism charges. He wasreleased three months later.In October 2010, the radio station suffered a grenade attack on its premises.Horseed employs about 14 journalists, some of whom have receivedjournalism training in the United States.46