BBC Somali Serviceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

The BBC Somali Service is a BBC World Service radio station transmitted in the Somali language and based in Bush House, Strand. Since 1999 the head of the station has been Yusuf Garaad Omar, a Somali journalist, who joined in 1992. Most of the listeners live in the Horn of Africa and nearby regions. According to the station, it provides a key link between those in Somalia and those elsewhere. Established on 18 July 1957 with two weekly programmes of 15 minutes each, the station made the broadcasts daily by September 1958, and on 1 July 1961 the two parts were joined and the programme time increased to 30 minutes. Increases in broadcast frequency have been made since. They currently broadcast twice daily. The station reports that, in the last three years, they have started developing local networks in Mogadishu, Bosaso, Kismayo, and Hargeisa. In August 2010 AllAfrica.com reported that Shabelle Media Network had started broadcasting some of the station's programmes.