Horseed Media
Horseed Media is a Somali news and broadcast organisation operating from Bosaso, in the Puntland region of Somalia. No company registration number is on file for the operation, consistent with Somalia not operating a functioning public company registry against which incorporation details can be verified. The outlet’s own website attributes copyright to “Horseed Media Ltd,” but no independent registry filing confirms this name’s jurisdiction of incorporation, so it is treated here as an operating name rather than a verified legal entity.
According to Horseed Media’s own published profile, the organisation was established on 5 April 2008 by members of the Somali diaspora based in the Netherlands and Finland, with the stated aim of promoting peace and development in Somalia. It publishes news in Somali and English at horseedmedia.net, covering Somalia’s federal government together with the Puntland, Galmudug, Jubaland and Somaliland administrations, alongside international news and opinion content. Horseed Media also operates an FM radio station broadcasting from Bosaso, which it describes as the first Somali radio station to stream its programming online, and in 2008 it became the first Somali media outlet selected for the United Nations Journalist Program.
By its own account, Horseed Media’s radio signal reaches approximately 300,000 listeners across a coverage area exceeding 100 square kilometres around Bosaso, and its website recorded over 10,000 daily unique visitors, with a stated team of about 15 staff split between Somalia, Kenya, the European Union and the United States. The outlet has repeatedly been the target of press-freedom incidents in Puntland, including a bomb attack on its Bosaso headquarters on 18 October 2010 and an order by Puntland authorities to shut down its radio station and block its website in October 2012.
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Shareholders
No shareholder or ownership disclosure is publicly available for Horseed Media through an official Somali company registry: Somalia does not operate a functioning public company register, so this profile cannot show disclosed shareholders, ownership percentages or share classes for the Somalia-based news and broadcast operation, and this gap is not evidence that the outlet has no owners.
A distinctly registered UK company sharing the identical name, HORSEED MEDIA LTD (company number 14923664), was incorporated on 8 June 2023 as a private company limited by guarantee without share capital, registered at 124-128 City Road, London, and dissolved on 12 November 2024, according to UK Companies House filings. As a guarantee company it had no shareholders in the conventional sense; its sole person with significant control was Ismail Said Awmusse, a Finnish national resident in Finland, recorded from 8 June 2023 as holding 75 percent or more of voting rights and the right to appoint or remove directors. This name closely matches “Aw Musse Ismail,” reported as one of Horseed Media’s co-founders in 2008, but no official filing links this dissolved UK entity to the Somalia-based operation covered on this profile, and the connection should be treated as unconfirmed rather than established.
Data availability for this entity is best described as not public: Somalia’s registry framework does not publish shareholder information, and the only related official ownership filing identified concerns a separate, now-dissolved UK legal vehicle whose relationship to the profiled entity could not be verified.
Officers
No public director or officer registry exists for Horseed Media’s Somalia-based operation: Somalia does not require public filing of company officers, so no current directors, secretaries or legal representatives can be confirmed through an official corporate source for the entity covered on this profile.
Press-freedom reporting nonetheless documents two individuals who have held named leadership or editorial roles at the outlet. The Committee to Protect Journalists reported that Abdifatah Jama served as deputy director of Horseed Media’s Bosaso radio station; he was arrested in August 2010, convicted in a closed-door trial on charges connected to authorising the broadcast of an interview with an armed opposition leader, and sentenced to six years’ imprisonment before receiving a presidential pardon and being released in November 2010, after which he relocated outside Somalia. Separately, CPJ identified Mohamed Adan Dirir as editor of the Horseed Media online news portal at the time of his arrest in Somaliland on 1 June 2017, after he questioned the regional health minister at a press conference; he was held without charge before his release. Both records describe roles held at specific points in time rather than confirmed current appointments, and neither source discloses nationality or country of residence for either individual.
Officer information for Horseed Media should be treated as restricted and historical: it is limited to roles documented in press-freedom monitoring rather than a corporate filing, it does not cover the full leadership team, and it may not reflect the outlet’s current management.
Group Structure
No parent company, subsidiary or verified corporate-group relationship is confirmed for Horseed Media’s Somalia-based news and broadcast operation: Somalia’s registry framework does not publish the ownership or group-linkage filings needed to establish such relationships, and no acquisition, merger or disposal involving the outlet has been identified in reputable reporting.
A UK-registered company sharing the identical name, HORSEED MEDIA LTD (company number 14923664), operated as a distinct legal vehicle in London between its incorporation on 8 June 2023 and its dissolution on 12 November 2024, structured as a private company limited by guarantee rather than a shareholder-owned company. No official filing establishes that this dissolved UK entity was a parent, subsidiary or branch of the Somalia-based operation covered on this profile, so any corporate link between the two must be treated as a possible, unverified relationship rather than a confirmed one.
Group-structure information for Horseed Media is best described as not found: no verified parent, subsidiary or affiliate relationship could be established from official sources, and this should not be read as confirmation that the outlet operates independently of any wider corporate structure.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What does Horseed Media do?
Horseed Media is a Somali news website and Bosaso-based FM radio station, founded on 5 April 2008 by Somali diaspora members from the Netherlands and Finland, publishing Somali- and English-language coverage of Somalia's federal and regional administrations.
Who owns Horseed Media?
No shareholder disclosure exists for Horseed Media under Somalia's registry, though a same-named UK company, HORSEED MEDIA LTD (no. 14923664, dissolved 12 November 2024), listed Finnish national Ismail Said Awmusse holding 75 percent or more of its voting rights, with no confirmed link to the Somalia operation.
Who is Horseed Media's UBO (Ultimate Beneficial Owner)?
No Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO) data is recorded for Horseed Media; access to beneficial-ownership data in this jurisdiction is governed by its own register rules.
Is Horseed Media still an active company?
Horseed Media's status on Company Data Enrichment is listed as active.
What is Horseed Media's registered address?
The registered address on file for Horseed Media is Somalia.
Who are the officers/directors of Horseed Media?
Press-freedom monitor CPJ recorded Abdifatah Jama as deputy director of Horseed Media's radio station until his 2010 imprisonment and pardon, and Mohamed Adan Dirir as editor of its online news portal at the time of his June 2017 arrest in Somaliland.
Does Horseed Media have a parent company or subsidiaries?
No parent company or subsidiary is verified for Horseed Media; Somalia's registry framework does not publish group-linkage filings, and no confirmed corporate ownership connects it to a same-named, now-dissolved UK company limited by guarantee.
Can Zavia monitor changes to Horseed Media's ownership over time?
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Can I access Horseed Media's data through an API?
Yes. Zavia's API connects directly to official government ownership registries across 195 countries and territories, including Somalia, so records like Horseed Media's registration, shareholder, UBO, and group-structure data can be queried programmatically instead of viewed one page at a time.
Where does this company information come from, and how current is it?
This record is sourced directly from Company Data Enrichment and was last synced on 13 August 2026.