The BBC reports:
A Somali radio station has resumed broadcasting after it was closed down by Islamist leaders for playing local love songs. However, Radio Jowhar is no longer playing any music, even jingles. The Union of Islamic Courts, which controls much of the south, is split between hardliners, who want Taleban-style rule, and moderates…. "It is useless to air music and love songs for the people," said Jowhar Islamic official Sheik Mohamed Mohamoud Abdirahman. Some residents were upset by the radio ban. "This directive is like the Taliban," Ali Musse told the AP news agency. "It is censorship against independent media and freedom of expression."
To Somalia's west, freedom of expression has led to the beheading of a newspaper editor in Khartoum. From Aljazeera:
A Sudanese newspaper editor who was kidnapped by armed men has been found beheaded. Mohamed Taha was snatched from outside his home in the capital Khartoum on Tuesday. A photograph showed his body bound at the feet and hands with his severed head next to his body, a Reuters witness said on Wednesday. He was found on a dirt street in a middle-class residential district of southern Khartoum. Dozens of Sudanese journalists gathered at the Khartoum mortuary, guarded by heavily armed police. Aziza Abdel Rahman, a journalist working for the country's armed forces magazine, said: "The Sudanese press will not be intimidated. We will write our views even more. This will not stop us." Taha was arrested last year and his al-Wifaq paper closed for three months after it published a series of articles questioning the roots of the Prophet Muhammad, which were condemned by Sudan's powerful Islamists. Local papers quoted his family as saying a group of men bundled Taha into a car outside his home and sped off towards central Khartoum.
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