My employer has just (29 September) set up a daily 30 minute radio programme, Afir Darfur, for the refugees in Darfur or in the camps just over the border in Chad, It is on short-wave (SW). How many of the refugees have access to short-wave radio?
Maybe some have a radio that receives FM (VHF) or AM (MW) but few will have access to SW.
Maybe the African Union under-funded, under-staffed and ineffective peace-keeping force will listen. Maybe the foreign aid agency staff in the camps over the border in Chad will listen ... but as none of them speak Arabic ...
My employer has an FM affiliate station in the Sudanese capital city Khartoum. Its signal will not reach Darfur or eastern Chad. If my employer is serious about reaching the refugees in Darfur and eastern Chad, it will set up an FM station there in El Fasher, Nyala or El Geneina in Darfur or in Abeche just over the border in Chad.
I am disgusted at the waste of taxpayer money, the waste of money on useless propaganda and wish these funds could be spent on peace-keeping, food aid and healthcare.
2 comments:
Hello,
I am a blogger and human rights activist.
I am planning to write a column about Afia Darfur for Huffington Post.
May I ask who is your employer? Also, do you have more information about this program and how it got started?
Susan
Trying to email you via both paxcommunications and investorsagainstgenocide - rejections each time - please leave a valid email address.
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