Hiiraan Online
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Hiiraan Online (HOL) is the oldest news and most popular websites dedicated to news and information about Somalia and the Horn of Africa.[1][2][3] It is published in English and Somali.
History
Hiiraan Online was founded in Ottawa, Canada, on July 1st, 1999[1], making it the first Somali news website. Its founder, Ahmed Gure, a former airline Captain with Somali Airlines[4], started the website after realizing that the internet could deliver fast and reliable news to the growing Somalia diaspora.
Content
The website publishes news articles, opinions, and political commentary[2] and remains one of the most critical[5] and reliable news websites in the Somali media landscape[6][7]. Hiiraan Online is regularly cited frequently in academia[2][8], books[9] and international media.
References
- ^ a b "Canadian Minority Media Database | Hiiraan online". www.artsrn.ualberta.ca. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
- ^ a b c University, Stanford; Stanford; California 94305. "Somalia news". Stanford Libraries. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Open Society Foundation, & Stremlau, N. S. (2012, February). Mapping digital media: Digital media, conflict and diasporas in the horn of africa. https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/publications/digital-media-conflict-and-diasporas-horn-africa
- ^ "Reviving the aviation industry in Somalia". www.hiiraan.com. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
- ^ Open Society Foundations. (2014). Somalis in Amsterdam (pp. 108-113, Rep.). Open Society Foundations. Retrieved May 10, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep27178.18
- ^ Open Society Foundations. (2013). Somalis in Oslo (pp. 141-150, Rep.). Open Society Foundations. Retrieved May 10, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep27145.18
- ^ Open Society Foundations. (2014). Somalis in London (pp. 7-8, Rep.). Open Society Foundations. Retrieved May 10, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep27110.4
- ^ "Somalia & Somaliland | Columbia University Libraries". library.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
- ^ "Google Scholar: Hiiraan Online". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
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