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 200 provide news and information to the entire urban population of the DRC.
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 United Nations, and the radio network went live on 25 February 2002.[1]
Radio Okapi has been described as "one of Africa’s most admirably independent radio services".[2]
Transmitters
Radio Okapi provides programming in five languages, transmitting all day every day on:[3]
Sources
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.[4] It has been selected by many festivals in France, Canada, Central African Republic and Burkina Faso.[5]
References
- ^ "Radio Okapi - Qui sommes nous?" (in French). Radio Okapi. http://www.radiookapi.net/index.php?i=56. Retrieved 2008-04-24.
- ^ "Congo’s election: That sinking feeling: A general election in the Democratic Republic of Congo may end in tears", The Economist, dated 26 Nov 2011.
- ^ "Radio Okapi: The project". Fondation Hirondelle. http://www.hirondelle.org/hirondelle.nsf/caefd9edd48f5826c12564cf004f793d/fe0a67c1619bdef64125741c005cc593?OpenDocument. Retrieved 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.
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