Friday, October 09, 2009
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NAIROBI (AFP) — Authorities in Somalia's breakaway Puntland region on Friday allowed local FM radio stations to resume rebroadcasting of Voice of America Somali language programmes.
The programmes were ordered off air last week for failing to "objectively and accurately report about Puntland affairs," the region's information and telecommunication ministry said in a statement.
They were allowed to broadcast again after talks between Puntland authorities, US state department officials and the US embassy in Kenya, the statement said.
Puntland is relatively peaceful compared to the rest of Somalia, which has been wracked by civil war since 1991.
In 2008, the whole of the Horn of Africa nation was listed as the third most dangerous in the world for reporters by the New York Committee to Protect Journalists, after Iraq and Sierra Leone.
Source: AFP, Oct 09, 2009