How an All-Women Newsroom is Rewriting Somalia’s Media Landscape, One Story at a Time

December 11, 2025

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Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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Digital Trends, Editor’s Picks, Women in Business

In a studio where the hum of broadcast equipment mixes with focused conversation, the team at Bilan Media prepares for a live talk show. Journalists adjust cameras, an audience settles in, and panelists—a digital rights activist, a ministry official, a psychologist—review their notes. This is the operational heart of Somalia’s first and only all-women newsroom,…

Somalia celebrates the International Day for Women in Maritime

June 23, 2025

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Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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Financial Empowerment, Women in Business

Somalia, supported by the United Nations, celebrated the International Day for Women in Maritime on Sunday, with an event designed to celebrate women’s role in the country’s sea-based industries. Somali officials announced the launch of a new initiative to empower women through education and job creation. Faced with gender discrimination, Somali women remain underrepresented in…

Gender Based Violence GBV prevention and life skills training to be integrated into national curricula in Somalia

May 27, 2025

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Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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East Africa, Education, Advocacy & Careers, Gender Equality

The Minister of Education, Culture and Higher Education of Somalia Farah Sheikh Abdulkadir has volunteered to integrate Gender Based Violence GBV prevention and life skills training into national curricula, targeting girls’ empowerment at the school level. According to the United Nations Children’s Fund UNICEF, the term gender-based violence (GBV) is used to describe any harmful act…