# Hinda Abdi Mohamoud (Hinda Cabdi Maxamuud)

> Hinda Abdi Mohamoud: chief editor of Bilan, Somalia's all-women newsroom; BBC 100 Women 2024.

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Last checked: 2026-11-12
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## Who is she?

Hinda Abdi Mohamoud is a Somali journalist who grew up in Hargeisa ([Wikipedia, Hinda Abdi Mohamoud](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinda_Abdi_Mohamoud)). She holds a degree in international relations from New Generation University in Hargeisa (same source). Before becoming a journalist she self-published *Raad Somali* (Somali Footprints), on the origins of the Somali people (same source).

## Bilan Media

She is chief editor of [Bilan](/en/society/bilan-media/) Media, Somalia's first independent media outlet run entirely by women, which launched in 2022 with UN funding ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinda_Abdi_Mohamoud)). Its reporting has covered subjects rarely discussed in public, such as HIV, Alzheimer's disease and people with albinism (same source). She has also written about people living for decades in displacement camps in Mogadishu, and contributed to the *Index on Censorship* magazine (same source).

In 2023 she and her team won the Index on Censorship Press Freedom Award for journalism (same source). In 2024 the BBC named her one of its 100 Women (same source).

## In short

The chief editor of Somalia's all-women newsroom, honoured by Index on Censorship and the BBC.

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