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The Ministry of Information and National Guidance of the Republic of Somaliland) (Somali: Wasaaradda Warfaafinta iyo Wacyigelinta Jamhuuriyadda Somaliland) (Arabic: وزارة الإعلام والإرشاد الوطني) is a Somaliland government ministry which is responsible and concerned about Information, broadcasting, and national guidance.
Dawan (Somali: Wargeyska Dawan) is a Somaliland Somali-language newspaper. It is published in Hargeisa, and it was started in 2000. The newspaper is owned by Dawan Media Group which a is department of Ministry of Information and National Guidance of Somaliland, It works as the principal newspaper of the government of Somaliland. [2] [3]
Before its launch, the Ministry of Information and National Guidance set plans for two transmitters: 100 watts and 500 watts respectively. [4] Initially it was known as Telefishanka J.D. Soomaaliya (Television of the Somali D.R.). Not much further information from this phase exists.
Additionally, the Somaliland region in the northwest has one government-operated radio station, Radio Hargeisa (Radio Somaliland). Established in 1943 in the former British Somaliland protectorate as the first Somali language station, [26] it broadcasts mostly in Somali but also features news bulletins in Amharic, Arabic and English. [8]
From the 2000s until 2014, this ministry also oversaw the local telecommunication industry and the Somali Postal Service. On 17 January 2014, newly appointed Prime Minister of Somalia, Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed split the ministerial portfolio into Ministry of Post and Telecommunications and Ministry of Information , respectively.
News show on the Somali private channel Horn Cable Television. The Mogadishu-based Somali National Television is the principal national public service broadcaster. On 18 March 2011, the Ministry of Information of the Transitional Federal Government began experimental broadcasts of the new TV channel.
Ministry of Education and Science (Somaliland) Ministry of Employment, Social and Family Affairs (Somaliland) Ministry of Endowment and Religious Affairs (Somaliland) Ministry of Energy and Minerals (Somaliland) Ministry of Environment and Rural Development (Somaliland)
In October 2021 it was announced by the Somali Ministry of Information that programs in Italian would be broadcast again thanks to an agreement with the Italian embassy in Mogadishu. From January 1, 2022, broadcasts in Italian begin, every day from 2.30 pm to 3.00 pm with a short news program, a musical program and various features.