Facts About The BBC Somali Service

Facts About The BBC Somali ServicesUnder the stewardship of Yusuf Garad, the BBC Somali service's reporting on Somaliland has become so biased it prompted the doyen of Somali studies, I.M. Lewis, to dub it the "Arta faction mouth piece." BBC (Somali Section which is headed by TNG president's cousin Yusuf Garad) as a propaganda tool to change the international public opinion.About four years ago when Yusuf Garad was named the editor of the BBC Somali Service, he became the first Somali to hold such a position.Unfortunately, since the commencement of preparations for the Arta peace conference in early 2000 and the subsequent enthroning of Abdiqasim Salad Hasan as president of the now-defunct TNG [Transitional National Government], the Somali Service of the BBC seems to have departed from the BBC's standard policy of fair, objective and accurate reporting. Of particular concern is a pattern of omission and distortion of developments taking place in this country and the harshly anti-Somaliland fervor consistently emanating from the Somali Service broadcasts.The BBC Somali Service has done great damage to the reputation of the BBC, and something must be done about it before it is too late.

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* News Posted By M Ghalib Musa.