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Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:57:00 +0200

Need something to spice up your radio shows? Well, 1Africa has special interest programming which will add value to your broadcast schedules - enlightening special reports, exclusive interviews, and all the 2010 action can colour your content at no cost or obligation. We also go topical and dig deep into burning issues around Africa like HIV/AIDS and malaria.
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Somali journalist awarded International Press Freedom Award

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:17:00 +0200

MOGADISHU: Mustafa Haji Abdinur, an Agence France Press (AFP) correspondent in Mogadishu and editor-in-chief of independent radio station Radio Simba, has won the International Press Freedom Award, administered by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
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Baidoa radio station shut down

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:26:00 +0200

VIENNA: Al-Shabab militants in the Somali town of Baidoa, late last week, shut down privately-owned Radio Warsan, and took the station's director and news editor into custody. According to the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ), al-Shabab forces in Baidoa entered the station's premises on 30 September 2009 at 4pm, and demanded that the FM station stop broadcasting.
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Government suspends VOA service in Puntland

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:49:00 +0200

NEW YORK: The Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned the suspension on Thursday, 1 October 2009, of three Voice of America (VOA) reporters in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland in north-eastern Somalia. Puntland's deputy minister of information, Abdishakur Mire Adan, issued a letter suspending all three VOA correspondents and any other VOA journalist from reporting in the region.
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Radio One tops Uganda's Superbrands

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:42:00 +0200

Radio One a local FM station, has been named the leading brand in Uganda according to a Survey carried out by brand analysis company Superbrands East Africa, a division of Superbrands United Kingdom.
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Ethiopia: New 'reality radio' show reaches out to youth

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:04:00 +0200

ADDIS ABABA: Yehualshet Getu, 22, excitedly freshens up and changes his clothes: today is a big day. "I have a first date with a girl I've known for a long time at school," he tells his best friend. "After I talk to her for a while I will kiss her."
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Kenyan government threatens to shut radio station

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:24:00 +0200

The Kenyan government has threatened to shut down a vernacular radio station for allegedly stoking ethnic tensions that culminated in the post-election violence earlier in the year.
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Tanzanian band takes on Europe

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:07:00 +0200

The Ngoma Africa band, a Tanzanian band based in Germany has released a new single CD Apache Wacha Pombe, which means, “Apache stop over drinking alcohol”. And by all accounts, it's a hit in Europe!
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Five radio station employees released, station back on the air

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:51:00 +0200

Heavily-armed police raided the Mogadishu studios of privately-owned Radio Voice of Peace on the morning of 17 April 2008, arresting five employees who were finally released in the evening, Reporters Without Borders has learned from Omar Faruk Osman, the secretary general of its partner organisation in Somalia, the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ).
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Rapid increase in radio and TV channels in Africa, says new report

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:25:00 +0200

A rapid increase in the number of radio and TV channels in Africa over the last three years has piqued interest in the continent by international media players.
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