Radio Okapi

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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.

1 History
2 Transmitters
3 Sources
4 In film
5 References
6 External links
7 See also

[edit] 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.^[1]

[edit] Transmitters

Radio Okapi provides programming in five languages, transmitting all day every day on:^[2]

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)

[edit] Sources

Fondation Hirondelle, Media for Peace and Human Dignity. Fondation Hirondelle. Retrieved on 2008-04-24.

[edit] 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.^[3] It has been selected by many festivals in France, Canada, Central African Republic and Burkina Faso.^[4]

[edit] References

^ Radio Okapi - Qui sommes nous? (French). Radio Okapi. Retrieved on 2008-04-24.
^ Radio Okapi: The project. Fondation Hirondelle. Retrieved on 2008-04-25.
^ 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.
^ Radio Okapi, radio de la vie was selected at:
- 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;
- Documentary Month, France, November 2006;
- Assises internationales du journalisme Lille, March 2007;
- Festival international du film des droits de l'Homme Paris, March 2007,
- 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.