Women are expected to keep their mouths shut here in Somalia. But not any more

Somalia's first woman to head a media house explains how she beat the odds to become a journalist and why Bilan was set up

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I really do not care whether men are interested in our stories or not. They are already well provided for by hundreds of other Somali media outlets if their only interest is politics and the endless, unproductive squabbling it involves.

Bilan's target audience is society as a whole, not just middle-aged men.