When the People Somalia So umbal Media

"Renegade government troops, military aggression of the Cross, the militia Khawarij," here are a few titles released headline Somali media. Somalia witnessed the conflict, especially in the capital Mogadishu between transitional government that is now "memiliterkan" the medium and the resistance movement Al-Mujahideen Al-Shabaab Somalia which has radio stations and internet sites that speak on their behalf.
Islamic Sites Online, Wednesday (6 / 4), reported, after the retreat of the transitional government of Ethiopia and the appointment of Ahmed Sharif in early 2009, Al-Shabaab waged war against the government media to distort their image. Similar treatment by the government-controlled Islamic movement leaders (Muslim Brotherhood and Salafi) against Al-Shabaab.

Al-Shabaab using a variety of ways to reduce the number of supporters of the transitional government through radio stations, newspapers and Web sites that they have independently. Thus, they display more movement ideology, attitudes toward government and the military and their struggle line.
 In 2009, Al-Shabaab published a small book that circulated widely throughout Mogadishu under the title "Road Criminals Become So Real," which outlines the charges against the transitional government and the Sharif Ahmed.
In the same year, the movement to establish a radio station called "Al-Andalus" in the town of Kismayo, southern Somalia, a radio station Al-Qur'an, and a number of internet sites in order to attract public sympathy towards the movement. In February, Al-Shabaab launched a television channel to promote the media and military activities in the country.
Not to be outdone, the transitional government also launched a radio station that had been vacuum-Mogadishu over the past two decades, in October 2010, and television channel in March 2011, in an attempt to reactivate the media presence of government and as a means to defend themselves against the accusations leveled at them. The government also launched a site that connected with the radio station to win the support of Somalis living abroad.
In this way, both Al-Shabaab, or the transitional government, has waged a war of new media to see who can get more supporters. (Republika)

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