Voice of America to Begin Broadcasts in Somali Language 12 February
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Excerpt from report by Kenyan newspaper The Standard website on 31 January  [Passage omitted] Meanwhile, the Voice of America (VOA) will on 12 February begin a new daily broadcast to the Horn of Africa.
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By JESSE NOYES  It hasn't exactly been an American dream.  Since Air America Radio's inception, the liberal talk network has struggled to stay alive.
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Text of report in English by Malaysian news agency Bernama website  Kuching, 20 February (Bernama) -- The Ministry of Information will set up a 24-hour radio news channel in Bahasa Malaysia and English, based on the "reality" concept, which will be on air within the next three months.
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Just click "Qallariy" to begin. Pronounced "KAH-lyah-ree," the word replaces "Start" on Microsoft Windows' familiar taskbar in the program's Quechua translation, which debuts in Bolivia on Friday.
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Arab satellite television al-Jazeera said on Friday it would broadcast a video tape from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden addressing the American people.
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SAN DIEGO - Omar Abdi Mohamed, a lanky, soft-spoken political refugee from war-ruined Somalia in East Africa, had been preaching the word of Islam in the United States for the past nine years. Two things make him unusual.
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Details of a television ad from President Bush to begin airing Friday:
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The African Union could have troops in the Somali capital in a few weeks to help set up the new Somali government.
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ARUSHA, Tanzania, June 2 -- A U.S. Navy destroyer launched an attack on foreign fighters in a remote corner of northeastern Somalia late Friday, according to a senior U.S. official, though details of the operation remained sketchy.
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Text of report by Afghan state TV on 6 February  [Presenter] A radio station called Saday-e Azad Nejrab [Free Voice of Nejrab] has started operating in Kapisa Province.
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The African Union will go ahead with a  fact-finding mission to Somalia on Monday to size up security  before a bigger African peace mission, officials said on  Sunday.
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SAN DIEGO -- Omar Abdi Mohamed, a lanky, soft-spoken political refugee from war-ruined Somalia in East Africa, had been preaching the word of Islam in the United States for the past nine years. Two things make him unusual.
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Voice of America and Radio Free Asia have doubled their broadcasts to Myanmar in response to the military-run government's crackdown on protesters.
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Construction began this week on the 4,500-kilometer East African Marine System (TEAMS) undersea fiber optic project that will link east Africa to the Middle East and the rest of the world, according to government officials.Alcatel-Lucent will construct the cable, which should be operational in next year&#39;s second quarter, for $82 million. The vendor won a tender for the project last year.The cable will provide affordable international broadband connectivity to several countries in east Africa, said Kenyan Minister of Information and Communication Samuel Paghisio. The cable, Paghisio said, will initially have a capacity of 40GB but will later be upgraded to 640GB.&quot;The cable will bring competition on the pricing of bandwidth, which means that the cost of communication in the region will come down,&quot; Paghisio said.The project is a joint venture between the Kenyan government and the United Arab Emirates government through Etisalat Telecommunication. The two governments own 20 percent shares each in the project. Eighty percent of project shares have been opened to the private sector.The cable will run from Mombasa in Kenya to a global network of fiber-optic cables at Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. The East African region includes Rwanda, Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan and Somalia.Kenya is a member of the&#160;east African submarine cable system&#160;(EASSY), another submarine cable project that will run parallel to TEAMS project under the Indian Ocean from Durban, South Africa, to Port Sudan in Sudan and provide high speed Internet connectivity. The EASSY project will connect 21 countries in the eastern and southern Africa region to the rest of the world.
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Editor&#39;s Note: An audiotape purportedly from Osama bin Laden was posted Arabic Web sites Thursday. The voice on the tapes refers December 6 attack on the US Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
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From December 2006, VOA TV has been carried by cable television company Estesa in Nicaragua. Programmes are in English and Spanish. VOA TV contains a mix of news, current affairs, educational and social issues programming.
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1 October 2004 -- The Arab satellite television network Al-Jazeera today aired an audiotape purportedly from Al-Qaeda senior lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahiri.