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Abdirahman Koronto

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Native name
  
Cabdiraxmaan Koronto

Citizenship
  
Somali-British

Name
  
Abdirahman Koronto

Nationality
  
British-Somali

Years active
  
1990s - Current

Organization
  
BBC

Occupation
  
Multi-media Broadcast Journalist

Employer
  
BBC World Service/Somali

Profiles

Abdirahman Koronto, is a senior multi-media broadcast journalist working with the BBC. He currently leads the Somali section of the BBC, as the Output Editor. As a journalist, he is credited to be a responsible and professional journalist. He has been in the media for over 25 years.

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Education

Abdirahman studied in University of Westminster in London, UK; for his MA International Broadcast Journalism, he currently studies MBA at Open University In his youthful years, he graduated from Yusuf al-Kowneyn.

Work experience

He worked as a broadcast journalist at Radio Mogadishu in 1990s before then joining the first privately owned radio in Somalia Radio HornAfrik and became director of programmes in both Radio and TV. He joined the BBC Somali Service in June 2000.

References

Abdirahman Koronto Wikipedia