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EAST AFRICA Radio summit for programme and station managers in Africa - 1Africa RadioCVC Media Africa invites fellow broadcasters to attend the first annual African Media Summit, taking place in Cape Town next year. 20 Nov 2009 14:19 EAST AFRICA 1Africa offers free quality radio content to radio stations across Africa - 1Africa Radio
EAST AFRICA Somali journalist awarded International Press Freedom AwardMOGADISHU: Mustafa Haji Abdinur, an Agence France Press (AFP) correspondent in Mogadishu and editor-in-chief of independent radio station Radio Simba, has won the International Press Freedom Award, administered by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). 13 Oct 2009 07:17 EAST AFRICA Baidoa radio station shut down[Naomi Hunt] VIENNA: Al-Shabab militants in the Somali town of Baidoa, late last week, shut down privately-owned Radio Warsan, and took the station's director and news editor into custody. According to the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ), al-Shabab forces in Baidoa entered the station's premises on 30 September 2009 at 4pm, and demanded that the FM station stop broadcasting. 6 Oct 2009 08:26 EAST AFRICA Government suspends VOA service in PuntlandNEW YORK: The Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned the suspension on Thursday, 1 October 2009, of three Voice of America (VOA) reporters in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland in north-eastern Somalia. Puntland's deputy minister of information, Abdishakur Mire Adan, issued a letter suspending all three VOA correspondents and any other VOA journalist from reporting in the region. 5 Oct 2009 08:49 EAST AFRICA Radio One tops Uganda's Superbrands[Walter Wafula] Radio One a local FM station, has been named the leading brand in Uganda according to a Survey carried out by brand analysis company Superbrands East Africa, a division of Superbrands United Kingdom. 9 Jun 2009 11:42 EAST AFRICA Ethiopia: New 'reality radio' show reaches out to youthADDIS ABABA: Yehualshet Getu, 22, excitedly freshens up and changes his clothes: today is a big day. "I have a first date with a girl I've known for a long time at school," he tells his best friend. "After I talk to her for a while I will kiss her." 4 Feb 2009 12:04 EAST AFRICA Kenyan government threatens to shut radio stationThe Kenyan government has threatened to shut down a vernacular radio station for allegedly stoking ethnic tensions that culminated in the post-election violence earlier in the year. 27 Jun 2008 13:24 EAST AFRICA Tanzanian band takes on Europe
EAST AFRICA Five radio station employees released, station back on the airHeavily-armed police raided the Mogadishu studios of privately-owned Radio Voice of Peace on the morning of 17 April 2008, arresting five employees who were finally released in the evening, Reporters Without Borders has learned from Omar Faruk Osman, the secretary general of its partner organisation in Somalia, the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ). 23 Apr 2008 10:51 EAST AFRICA Rapid increase in radio and TV channels in Africa, says new reportA rapid increase in the number of radio and TV channels in Africa over the last three years has piqued interest in the continent by international media players. 29 Feb 2008 09:25 Latest jobs | Ad showcase |
The 2010 Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards have added sector-specific categories to reflect the important role that various industries play in economic development. Entries are free and can be on any platform - online, print, broadcast. The closing date for entries is 26 March 2010, with the awards ceremony being held on 1 July 2010 in Central London. 
Isha Sesay, who hosts Inside Africa, CNN International's weekly look at political, economic, social and cultural affairs and trends in Africa, will co-host the CNN MultiChoice African Journalist Awards, to be held in Kampala Uganda on 29 May 2010. 
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The Ngoma Africa band, a Tanzanian band based in Germany has released a new single CD Apache Wacha Pombe, which means, “Apache stop over drinking alcohol”. And by all accounts, it's a hit in Europe! 
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