“People take you seriously if you are a journalist. If you are not a journalist and you try to tell people things, they don’t listen.”

“So many of my female colleagues have left the profession because of harassment and a lack of opportunities.”

“Everything in somalia depends on women - the economy, the home, the children, the family.”

“I hope Bilan will give us the freedom and safety to do a different kind of journalism beyond Somalia’s usual media diet of male- dominated politics and conflict.”

“We come from the bush, where the concept of being a journalist does not exist.”