Radio Okapi

Radio Okapi is a radio network that operates in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. On an annual budget of US$4.5 million a staff of two hundred provide news and information to the entire urban population of the DRC, about 60 million people.

History

Radio Okapi was created by the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) and the Swiss NGO Fondation Hirondelle. The agreement between MONUC and the Congolese government foresaw the creation of a radio network to inform the Congolese population of the MONUC's efforts. MONUC and the Fondation Hirondelle submitted a plan in 2001 to the UN, and the radio network went live on 2002-02-25.cite web
url=http://www.radiookapi.net/index.php?i=56
title=Radio Okapi - Qui sommes nous?
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Transmitters

Radio Okapi provides programming in five languages, transmitting all day every day on:cite web
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publisher=Fondation Hirondelle
accessdate=2008-04-25]
*Kinshasa 103.5 MHz
*Bunia 104.9 MHz
*Bukavu 95.3 MHz
*Goma 105.2 MHz
*Kindu 103.0 MHz
*Kisangani 94.8 MHz
*Lubumbashi 95.8 MHz
*Matadi 102.0 MHz
*Mbandaka 103.0 MHz
*Mbuji-Mayi 103.5 MHz
* Shortwave
**9635 kHz (5 AM to 7 AM)
**11890 kHz (5 PM to 6 PM)

ources

*cite web
url=http://www.hirondelle.org
title=Fondation Hirondelle, Media for Peace and Human Dignity
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In film

* "Radio Okapi, radio de la vie", is a documentary produced by Pierre Guyot, 2006. It premiered on TV5 in June 2006. It examines the work of Breuil Munganga, a journalist at Radio Okapi. [Catherine Bédarida, «Une radio pour la paix», article and interview with Pierre Guyot "Le Monde" supplement "TV&Radio" 7-8 January 2007, page 5. Guyot recalls the birth of Radio Okapi survient eight years before the Rwanda genocide, in the course of which Radio des Mille Collines had encouraged the massacres.] It has been selected by many festivals in France, Canada, Central African Republic and Burkina Faso. ["Radio Okapi, radio de la vie" was selected at:
* [http://www.figra.fr "Festival international du grand reportage d'actualité et du documentaire de société"] (FIGRA) March 2006;
*"Festival Ciné droits libres de Ouagadougou", Burkina Faso, November 2006;
* [http://www.imagenbib.com/pages/03_Mfd.htm Documentary Month] , France, November 2006;
* [http://www.assisesdujournalisme.com "Assises internationales du journalisme"] Lille, March 2007;
* [http://www.festival-droitsdelhomme.org "Festival international du film des droits de l'Homme"] Paris, March 2007,
* [http://www.unites.uqam.ca/sqsp/congresAnn/congres2007/indexSQSP2007.htm "Colloque annuel de la Société Québécoise de Sciences Politiques"] , Université Laval, May 2007,
*"Le Festival du Film des Droits de l'Homme", Bangui, Central African Republic, May 2007.]

References

External links

* [http://www.radiookapi.net/ Official Site of Radio Okapi] fr icon
* [http://www.monuc.org/news.aspx?newsID=9176 Radio Okapi on the MONUC site] fr icon
* [http://www.dxing.info/profiles/congo_okapi.dx Article at DXing.info]

ee also

* Radios en République démocratique du Congo fr icon