Star FM is a privately owned radio station in

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and the country's oldest Somali-language broadcaster. Established in 2005, the station boasts of a listenership of millions of people in northern Kenya as well as the capital,

Nairobi Nairobi ( ) is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The name is derived from the Maasai phrase ''Enkare Nairobi'', which translates to "place of cool waters", a reference to the Nairobi River which flows through the city. The city proper h ...

, and can also be heard across

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 ...

and southern parts of

Ethiopia Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...

. With its headquarters in Nairobi, Star FM has transmitters stations in Garissa, Dadaab, Wajir, Madogo in Tana River and Mandera in the country's northeastern regions. In Somalia, Star FM has stations in Mogadishu, Guriceel (89.5FM), Bulla Hawa/Dolow (92.5FM), El wak (89.5FM), Dhobley (89.5FM), Afmadow (89.5FM), Kismayo (89.5FM), Jowhar (97.0FM), Marka (97.0FM), Dhusamareeb (89.5FM), Beledweyne (88.5), Abud Waq (89.5FM), Bosasso (88.5FM) and Galkacyo (88.5FM). The station broadcasts 24 hours a day across Kenya in Somali, English and Swahili and rebroadcasts programmes from BBC and VOA Somali Service as well as Radio Ergo. Star FM's programming consists of news, entertainment, political, business, sports and humanitarian programmes. “When the station began to broadcast in 2005, the listeners in North Eastern happily identified with Star FM, calling it their own,” the station’s chairman Mohamud Abdullahi Sheikh told the Daily Nation.

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{{reflist Somali-language radio stations 2005 establishments in Kenya Radio stations established in 2005 2005 establishments in Somalia