Bartamaha (Nairobi):- The Transitional Federal Government yesterday ordered the closure of two radio stations in Mogadishu. The affected independent media, Somaliweyn and Tusmo, operate in the section of the capital controlled by the government.
Abukar Kadaf, the Director of Somaliweyn in North Mogadishu said security agents produced a warrant, ordering him to close the radio station. Tusmo Radio Director, Abdirashid Deel was also given the letter to close down.
However, sources told the Nation that the two stations were reopened after the TFG’s Minister for Information, Dahir Mohamud Ghelle intervened.
Last week, Secretary General of the TFG’s Mogadishu Administration, Abdikafi Hilowle Osman, ordered broadcasters in the government side of the capital to start playing music and other lyrics.
He criticised the stations for obeying an order from Islamist group, Hizbu Islam, banning radios and TVs from playing music or even including tunes to regular programmes and advertisements.
Meanwhile, five people were killed and seven injured in a mortar exchange between Somali government troops and Islamist insurgents on Tuesday.
Residents in Mogadishu’s Towfiq area said they saw the bodies of three suspected insurgents being pulled out from a house they had lived in.
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Source:- Daily Nation

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