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What is Radio Okapi?
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Why Okapi?
Radio Okapi
QG Monuc
12, Av des Aviateurs
Kinshasa Gombe RDC
e-mail: info@hirondelle.org, info@monuc.org
Tel: +1 212 963 01 03 ext 56384, 56397
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Radio Okapi is...
- It is the largest radio project that the United Nations and the Fondation Hirondelle have ever conducted.
- It is a radio operation enabling the people of the Congo to communicate with their compatriots.
- It is a radio intended to work hand-in-hand with the peace and electoral process.
- It is a network of radio stations designed to cover this immense country of 2,345,000 square kilometres, providing services for approximately 56,000,000 inhabitants.
- The network centre is in the capital Kinshasa. There are eight regional studios.
- The network will be served by satellite, shortwave and FM transmitters and by the Internet (RadioOkapi.net)
- It is a service aimed at a population suffering from years of military conflict and economic stagnation resulting in 900,000 refugees, 2,400,000 displaced people, three million people relying on daily food programs, 300,000 people being treated for malnutrition and a school attendance rate that tumbled to 43% in 1999 from 70% in 1993.
- Programs will contain scrupulous, non-partisan, credible information broadcast throughout the country.
- The broadcast languages will be in French , Lingala, Swahili, Chiluba and Kikongo.
- Programs will be devoted to themes relating to health, education, human rights, culture and music.
- The 2003' budget was covered by four donors (UK, Switzerland, USA and The Netherlands)
- The operation is run by around 100 journalists, presenters and staff, the majority of whom will be Congolese.
- The project involves close co-operation between the United Nations and the Hirondelle Foundation with the aim of making a lasting contribution to peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- It also involves co-operation with the existing media in the DRC, mainly with other radios in the fields of production and training.
- The project is a network of stations designed to continue into the post-MONUC phase.
Andrea Frazzetta, LaRepubblica, 2006 |