Radio Okapi

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Radio Okapi
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Radio station
Program type News channels , music channels , talk radio
reception analog , terrestrial , shortwave , satellite , live stream
Reception area Democratic Republic of Congo
Start of transmission February 25, 2002
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Radio Okapi is a radio broadcaster in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . It is one of the most important information media in the country and has its headquarters in Kinshasa .

Radio Okapi was founded in February 2002 on the initiative and with the support of the United Nations , MONUC and the Fondation Hirondelle, an NGO from Switzerland. On the occasion of the Second Congo War from 1998 to 2003, a "peace radio" was to be set up as a lesson from notorious "hate radio" such as the Rwandan broadcaster RTL Mille Collines .

Interview guest Martin Kobler at Radio Okapi Studio, 2014

The station is named after the okapi , a peaceful mammal and a popular figure who is not associated with any political group. It is broadcast in French , Lingala , Swahili , Tschiluba and Kikongo . The station has around 215 employees nationwide and an annual budget of US $ 12 million (2013).

Radio Okapi played an important role in the 2006 elections by giving candidates from all parties equal access to listeners and voters.

The French documentary " Radio Okapi, radio de la vie " was shot in 2005 through the station and its journalists . On September 12, 2010, Radio Okapi received the “Free Media Pioneer” award from the International Press Institute .

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Commons : Radio Okapi  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b UNITED NATIONS Radio Broadcast , October 11, 2006.
  2. ↑ À Propos on radiookapi.net
  3. ^ Richard A. D'Angelo: Radio Okapi, a Fondation Hirondelle Project - Enabling the People of the Congo to Communicate . In: DXing.info . April 12, 2003. Retrieved September 22, 2015.
  4. ↑ Can 'peace radio' survive in peacetime? As UN missions end, the future of viable independent stations remains uncertain By André-Michel Essoungou, United Nations Africa Renewal, December 2010, page 16
  5. ^ A b Democratic Republic of the Congo - The program . In: Fondation Hirondelle . February 4, 2014. Retrieved September 22, 2015.
  6. ^ "Radio Okapi, radio de la vie", documentary by Pierre Guyot, 2005/2006. [1]
  7. ↑ Olivier Tallès: Une radio congolaise gagne un prix international de la liberté de la presse. La Croix, September 14, 2010, p. 9. ( online )
  8. ↑ IPI honors Radio Okapi with 2010 Free Media Pioneer award . In: IFEX . September 10, 2010. Retrieved September 22, 2015.