{"id":525390,"date":"2010-04-13T00:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T04:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16711557.post-437303090446888596"},"modified":"2010-04-13T00:52:51","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T04:52:51","slug":"somali-resistance-forces-ban-bbc-output","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/525390","title":{"rendered":"Somali Resistance Forces Ban BBC Output"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/53911892@N00\/4314228206\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2741\/4314228206_eccb5e1479_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/53911892@N00\/4314228206\/\">Fighters from the al-Shabab resistance group in Somalia. The US-backed government in Djibouti has announced that it will deploy 450 troops to AMISOM. The American military has a base in the country.<\/a><br \/>Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/53911892@N00\/\">Pan-African News Wire File Photos<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Somali Islamists ban BBC output<\/p>\n<p>By Peter Greste<br \/>East Africa correspondent, BBC News<\/p>\n<p>The Somali Islamist movement al-Shabab has banned the BBC and closed down transmitters broadcasting the Somali language service inside the country.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Shabab accused the BBC of fighting against Islam and supporting the transitional federal government, which the rebels are fighting to overthrow.<\/p>\n<p>The group said the BBC had been broadcasting the agenda of crusaders and colonialists against Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC said it was strictly impartial and spoke to all sides in the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC has been broadcasting its services in Somali, Arabic and English across the country on a series of FM frequencies for at least a decade, and surveys suggest it is one of the most widely listened-to news services in Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Strict standards&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Al-Shabab ordered all of the BBC&#8217;s transmitters to be shut down.<\/p>\n<p>A statement by al-Shabab demanded that any organisation transmitting the BBC, or the Washington-based Voice of America, should cancel their contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Shabab and its allies control most of southern and central Somalia and all but a few districts of the capital, Mogadishu.<\/p>\n<p>They have been fighting to establish an Islamist administration of their own in place of the current government.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC&#8217;s broadcasts have been taken off the FM bandwidth, but are still available on shortwave and the internet.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the statement, the head of BBC Africa, Jerry Timmins, said the organisation spoke to all sides in the conflict, including al-Shabab, adhered to strict standards of impartiality and editorial independence and rejected any suggestion otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Story from BBC NEWS:<br \/>http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/pr\/fr\/-\/2\/hi\/africa\/8612654.stm<br \/>Published: 2010\/04\/09 21:36:05 GMT<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/16711557-437303090446888596?l=panafricannews.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fighters from the al-Shabab resistance group in Somalia. The US-backed government in Djibouti has announced that it will deploy 450 troops to AMISOM. The American military has a base in the country.Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File Photos Somali Islamists ban BBC output By Peter GresteEast Africa correspondent, BBC News The Somali Islamist movement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4243,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}