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Kenyan radio stations that broadcast in SomaliStar FM www.starfm.co.keStar FM is the leading Somali-language radio station in Kenya. It also has anFM relay station in Mogadishu.It is widely considered to be the most effective radio channel forreaching Somali refugees in Kenya and the large population of KenyanSomalis.Star RM is based in Nairobi. It also has studios in Garissa, the capital ofNortheastern Province, which is mainly inhabited by ethnic Somalis.The station broadcasts 24 hours per day from 1,000 watt transmitters in thefollowing locations: Nairobi (105.9 FM) Garissa (97.1 FM) Wajir (97.3 FM) Mandera (97.5 FM) Madogo (Tana River) (97.1 FM) Mogadishu (97.00 FM)It is privately owned by North-Eastern Media and Telecommunications Ltd,which is based in Garissa.Star FM rebroadcasts programmes of the BBC Somali Service and RadioErgo.Managing Director – Mohamed OsmanMob: +254 721 427 384+254 738 427 380Tel: +254 20 676 5970Email: Mohamed@starfm.co.keAddress: Eastleigh Mall 4 th floor,General Waruinge Street,PO Box 68351- 00622, Nairobi, Kenya.Garissa office/studioTel: +254 46 504970Email: nepmedia@yahoo.com52
Frontier FMThis privately owned Somali-language radio station broadcasts from Garissa,the regional capital of Kenya’s North-Eastern Province.It transmits on 107.5 FM in Garrissa and 88.7FM in Nairobi, where there is alarge ethnic Somali population.Frontier FM is popular with both Kenyan Somalis and refugees andimmigrants from Somalia.The station carries Somali music programmes, Koranic recitations,Islamic lectures, and news on the hour.It has reporters in Garissa, Wajir and Nairobi, and correspondents inMogadishu and Somalia's southern port city of Kismayo.Frontier FM rebroadcasts VOA Somali Service programmes.The station was launched in 2006.Contacts????Salaam Radio www.salaamfm.comSalaam Radio is a talk radio radio station that broadcasts to the coastal areasof Kenya from the port city of Mombasa.Most of its programmes are in Swahili, but it broadcasts a 60-minuteprogramme in Somali every day at 15.00.Salaam Radio has transmitters in the following locations: Mombasa (90.7 FM) Malindi (92.1 FM) Lamu (92.6 FM) Garissa (89.5 FM)The station went on air in 2006 and claims to have 300.000 regular listenerson the Kenyan coast.It is owned by the family of Kenya’s defence minister, Yusuf Haji.Tel: +254 41)2317330+254 41 2318395Email: sales@radiosalaamfm.comAddress: TSS Towers, 13the Floor, NKR Road, P.O BOX 90445-80100,Mombasa, Kenya.53
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Page 20 and 21: 3. Radio overviewRadio is the most
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Page 72 and 73: www.calanka.comThis news website is
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