Garowe Online
Independent Somali news site founded in 2004 in Garowe, the capital of Puntland, publishing in English and Somali. One of the country's most established digital outlets, it reports on federal and regional politics, security and Al-Shabaab, and the economy, and is frequently cited by international media for coverage of Puntland and wider Somali affairs.
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Garowe Online is positioned toward the editorial center of Somalia's media spectrum, or its orientation is mixed or not consistently classified by the major media-bias assessments. Crosswire groups Somalia outlets into left, center and right so you can read the same day's events from more than one vantage point: seeing Garowe Online beside outlets of a different orientation makes editorial choices — which stories lead, which framing is used, what gets omitted — far easier to spot than reading any single source alone.
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