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Somalia Report
Somalia Report is a news service that focuses on working with Somali journalists and international experts to provide news, insight, and non-partisan coverage. The internet-based information network began in 2011 and now works with over 110 local Somali journalists to gather news and information to create the region's only 24/7 news cycle. Somalia Report provides local news with exclusive insider coverage of piracy, al Shaabab, clandestine operations, back room politics along with in-depth analysis. The editor is Canadian author Jay Bahadur who wrote ''Pirates of Somalia''. Publisher and founder Robert Young Pelton is also the author of ''The World's Most Dangerous Places'', and has created similar ground network driven sites during the height of the conflict in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. References News agencies based in Somalia Mass media in Somalia {{Somalia-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Young Pelton
Robert Young Pelton (born July 25, 1955) is a Canadian-American author, journalist, and documentary film director. Pelton's work usually consists of conflict reporting and interviews with military and political figures in war zones. Pelton has been present at conflicts such as the Battle of Qala-i-Jangi in Afghanistan, the Battle of Grozny (1999–2000) in Chechnya, the Siege of Monrovia, rebel siege to take Monrovia in Liberia, and the siege on Villa Somalia in Mogadishu, and has been with ground forces in about 40 other conflicts. He spent time with the Taliban and the Northern Alliance pre-9/11, the CIA during the hunt for Osama bin Laden and also with both insurgents and Blackwater security contractors during the war in Iraq. Pelton's regularly published survival and political guide ''The World's Most Dangerous Places'', provides practical and survival information for people who work and travel in high-risk zones, and is a ''New York Times'' bestseller. He was also the ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Bahadur
Jay Bahadur (born 1984) is a Canadian journalist and author. He became known for his reporting on piracy in Somalia, writing for ''The New York Times'', ''The Financial Post'', ''The Globe and Mail'', and ''The Times'' of London. Bahadur has also worked as a freelance correspondent for CBS News and he has advised the U.S. State Department on piracy. His first book, '' The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World'' (2011), is his account of living with the pirates for several months in Puntland, a semi-autonomous region in the northeast of Somalia. Bahadur lives in Nairobi, Kenya. Early life and education Bahadur was born in 1984 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Educated at the University of Toronto Schools, he attended the University of Toronto, graduating in 2007 with a B.A. in Political Science and Economics. In 2008, he was working for a market research firm in Chicago. Interested in working as a journalist, Bahadur was told by real journalists to avoid going to school to st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The World's Most Dangerous Places
''The World's Most Dangerous Places'' is handbook of survival tactics for high-risk regions first published in 1994, written by National Geographic Adventure columnist Robert Young Pelton and his contributors. The fifth edition was published in 2003. Summary The book is divided into three parts. The first is a primer on the basics of staying safe in war zones and high-crime areas. This includes safety advice regarding transportation, crime, terrorism, bribery, disease, drugs, weapons, kidnappings, land mines, mercenaries, and more. The second is essentially a chapter-by-chapter list of dangerous locales. Each nation or autonomous administrative division An autonomous administrative division (also referred to as an autonomous area, entity, unit, region, subdivision, or territory) is a subnational administrative division or internal territory of a sovereign state that has a degree of autonomy†... is assigned a rating depending on the level and type of danger. The third sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
News Agencies Based In Somalia
News is information about current events. This may be provided through many different media: word of mouth, printing, postal systems, broadcasting, electronic communication, or through the testimony of observers and witnesses to events. News is sometimes called "hard news" to differentiate it from soft media. Common topics for news reports include war, government, politics, education, health, the environment, economy, business, fashion, entertainment, and sport, as well as quirky or unusual events. Government proclamations, concerning royal ceremonies, laws, taxes, public health, and criminals, have been dubbed news since ancient times. Technological and social developments, often driven by government communication and espionage networks, have increased the speed with which news can spread, as well as influenced its content. Throughout history, people have transported new information through oral means. Having developed in China over centuries, newspapers became establ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
