Chief Political Correspondent
Live
LIVE — Mogadishu summit on regional tradeDOCUMENTARY — The lost libraries of Zeila premieres FridayINTERVIEW — Diaspora entrepreneurs reshape East African logisticsANALYSIS — Inside the new Somali tech corridorCULTURE — Oral historians race to preserve clan poetryBUSINESS — Hargeisa coffee exporters break records
LIVE — Mogadishu summit on regional tradeDOCUMENTARY — The lost libraries of Zeila premieres FridayINTERVIEW — Diaspora entrepreneurs reshape East African logisticsANALYSIS — Inside the new Somali tech corridorCULTURE — Oral historians race to preserve clan poetryBUSINESS — Hargeisa coffee exporters break records
On Air Broadcasting from Mogadishu · Minneapolis · Nairobi
The Takar Media Network · Est. 2024
Stories that shape us.
Voices that resonate.
Long-form political journalism, cinematic documentaries, and intimate small-business portraits — produced in our own voice, for the entire Somali world and beyond.
- Episodes
- 120+
- Annual views
- 2.4M
- Countries
- 24
- Languages
- 3
Live Feed · Ep 042
Now Broadcasting
The Briefing
The Future of Somali Trade Routes
Featured in
BBC SomaliAl JazeeraReuters AfricaVOAFrance 24The Guardian
Trending now
What the Somali world is watching.
Our shows
Three streams.
One Somali story.
A network of long-form programs covering the politics, heritage, and economy of the Horn of Africa and the diaspora.
The newsroom
The journalists behind every broadcast.
Our anchors and producers carry decades of combined reporting from East Africa, the Gulf, and the diaspora. Every episode is researched, sourced, and edited in-house.
Senior Cultural Editor
Hodan Diiriye
Documentary Producer
Cumar Maxamed
Recent broadcasts
Latest episodes
"Takar Media is doing for Somali long-form journalism what the great public broadcasters did a generation ago — patiently, beautifully, and on our own terms."
Letter from the editor
The dispatch
Never miss a broadcast.
A weekly editor's letter with new episodes, behind-the-scenes notes, and the stories we're chasing next.
Free. No spam. Unsubscribe with one click.