[3][4][5] Radio Mogadishu was modernized with Russian assistance following independence in 1960, and began offering home service in Somali, Amharic and Oromo.

[6] After closing down operations due to the civil war that broke out in 1991, the station was officially re-opened in 23 August 2001 by the Transitional National Government of former President of Somalia Abdiqasim Salad Hassan.

[7] Prior to the Somali Army's ultimate pacification of the capital in August 2011, Radio Mogadishu operated from a walled compound guarded by armed soldiers.

The station's staff routinely broadcast news, talk shows and music despite threats of violence.

In the late 2000s, the station also launched a complementary website of the same name, with news items in Somali, Arabic and English.