Winner of the 2024
One World Media
Press Freedom Award
For their courage in challenging taboos and bringing new stories to light in one of the most dangerous palaces to be a journalist: https://oneworldmedia.org.uk/latest/highlights-from-the-36th-one-world-media-awards-ceremony/
“What a privilege to meet this brave team of journalists telling new stories & telling them so well. #Somalia.”
— Lyse Doucet, BBC Chief International Correspondent
Bilan in the news
A team that can make a difference
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Internship programme
Bilan's internship programme offers a way for recent journalism graduates to take their first steps in this challenging career in a supportive and highly professional environment.
They have the chance to work part time for six months at the Bilan offices, producing stories with Bilan's team of journalists and joining masterclasses and other training opportunities.
Reporting highlights
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Inside the beauty pageant in one of the world’s worst places to be a woman
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The dilemma of displaced women in Mogadishu
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The Global South needs more female journalists
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The inspiring women of Somalia
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Somalia's football pitch that doubles as an execution ground
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How failed migrants thrive and contribute to development back home
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‘The river took it all’: Somalis wait for waters to recede as floods kill dozens
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Somalis with albinism: Pelted with stones and raw eggs
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Shunned and homeless: Living with HIV in Somalia
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Menstruation education urgently needed in schools (in Somali)
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It’s dangerous being a female journalist in Somalia. But, one year on, we are still shining our light
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What’s driving some Somali mothers to poison their babies?
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Mothers ‘rent out’ babies for begging and poison their children to survive drought in Somalia
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‘I poison my children in order to survive’: The terrible toll of Somalia’s drought
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Challenging taboos in Somalia: the young female farmers studying agriculture and farming
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Women are expected to keep their mouths shut here in Somalia. But not any more
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Somalia's opioid overdose: Young, female and addicted
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Race against time to vaccinate against measles in Somalia (in Spanish)
Find out how Bilan will make a difference for Somali women’s journalism