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Garowe Online is an independent bilingual news website founded in 2004 and is owned by Garowe News Group, which also owns
'' described ''Garowe Online'' as providing "particularly good context to stories", providing details for the main facts in stories, in contrast to other Somali news sources, but did sometimes use vague attribution, and failed to give a government spokesperson a chance to respond in one case. The ''BBC'' found that ''Garowe Online'' had one of the best examples of investigative reporting, but also articles with poor levels of research and investigation.
Garowe Online is an independent bilingual news website founded in 2004 and is owned by Garowe News Group, which also owns Radio Garowe
Radio Garowe is a radio station based in Garowe, the administrative capital of the autonomous Puntland region in northeastern Somalia. Established in 2004, the broadcaster transmits programs daily on 89.8 FM. In May 2013, Radio Garowe launched an a ...
. The organisation is based in Garowe
Garowe ( so, Garoowe, ar, غَاْرَّوْؤَيَ,
, the capital of Puntland
Puntland ( so, Puntland, ar, أرض البنط, it, Terra di Punt or ''Paese di Punt''), officially the Puntland State of Somalia ( so, Dowlad Goboleedka Puntland ee Soomaaliya, ar, ولاية أرض البنط الصومالية), is a F ...
State of Somalia
Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constituti ...
. In 2011, ''Garowe Online'' was one of the most popular websites in Puntland, accessed daily by the Puntland political elite.
Creation
''Garowe Online'' was established in 2004 and associated with ''Radio Garowe''.News profile
The site mainly provides news about Somalia, theHorn of Africa
The Horn of Africa (HoA), also known as the Somali Peninsula, is a large peninsula and geopolitical region in East Africa.Robert Stock, ''Africa South of the Sahara, Second Edition: A Geographical Interpretation'', (The Guilford Press; 2004), ...
, Africa as a whole, and, once in a while, from around the world. It mainly focuses on security, politics and humanitarian affairs.
Quality
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In 2011, ''Garowe Online'' was one of the most popular websites in Puntland, and was an elite news source there, "accessed online every morning by ministers and officials", according to a ''BBC'' analysis. As of 2013, Somalia didn't have many significant newspapers outside ofSomaliland
Somaliland,; ar, صوماليلاند ', ' officially the Republic of Somaliland,, ar, جمهورية صوماليلاند, link=no ''Jumhūrīyat Ṣūmālīlānd'' is a ''de facto'' sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, still conside ...
, owing to its decades of conflict
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* ''Conflict'' (1937 film) ...
. Garowe Online is among the main sources of news for the public in Somalia as well as the diaspora. The website publishes news in both the Somali language
Somali (Latin script: ; Wadaad writing, Wadaad: ; Osmanya: 𐒖𐒍 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘 ) is an Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language belonging to the Cushitic languages, Cushitic branch. It is spoken as a mother tongue by Somalis in ...
and English.
References
External links
* Mass media in Somalia Puntland Somali-language mass media {{News-website-stub