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AL SHABAB MILITANT IN SOMALIA BANS BBC AND VOA FROM ITS TERRITORIES OF COMMAND.

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Mogadishu.

Al-shabab militant group have closed studios of various international media houses in Mogadishu on Friday making broadcasts come to stand still in Mogadishu and all the areas under their control in South and central Somalia.

Witnesses say Somali Islamists are seizing radio transmitters that let the local population hear news programs from the British Broadcasting Corporation. The studios for the BBC and other local Fm radio stations are among those affected.

In a press statement from Al-shabab’s press office, the insurgents announced that they have taken over particularly the BBC studios and would stop all broadcasts of the VOA through the local fm stations.

They accused the BBC and VOA for fulfilling foreign missions and it campaigns for an Islamic nation not to be found in Somalia. And asked the people to stop listening to these stations which they termed as media agencies which are implementing an in direct modern colonization.

The group fights a daily battle against a weak fragile U.N.-backed government led by Sheikh Sheriff Sheikh Ahmed. Somalia has not had an effective government for nearly 20 years.

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Malema calls BBC reporter a ‘bastard’ and ‘agent’

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Friday, 09 April 2010
IN an astonishing attack, the ANC Youth League’s president has called a BBC journalist a “bastard” and an ”agent”, according to a report in the Sowetan.
Julius Malema was addressing the media on the ANCYL’s recent visit to Zimbabwe. He criticised Zimbabwean opposition party the Movement for Democratic Change, saying they should go back to Zimbabwe instead of working from offices in Sandton, Johannesburg.British Broadcasting Corporation journalist Jonah Fisher interjected, saying Malema lived in Sandton — unleashing a barrage of insults.

“This is a building of a revolutionary party and you know nothing about revolution so here you behave or else you jump,” he said, speaking from Luthuli House in the Johannesburg CBD.

Fisher attempted to respond, but Malema did not relent.

“Chief, can you get security to remove this thing here?” he requested of staff present on Luthuli House’s 11th floor, the venue for most party media briefings.

“If you are not going to behave we are going to call security to take you out. This is not a newsroom this, this is a revolutionary house and you don’t come here with your white tendency. Don’t come here with that white tendency, not here, you can do it somewhere else.

“If you’ve got a tendency of undermining blacks even where you work you are in the wrong place.”
To which Fisher replied: “That’s rubbish.”

Malema then asked him to leave saying: “… Rubbish is what you have covered in that trouser, that is rubbish.”
“You are a small boy, you can’t do anything. Bastard, go out, you bloody agent.”

The BBC declined to comment when contacted after the briefing.