Setting-up a News Agency on Development Issues in Africa

by Gilles Eric Foadey
Journalist, Simbani News Agency, AMARC Africa

Partly thanks to a partnership with FAO, the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) has set-up a news agency on development issues, including food security. Called the Simbani News Agency, it will reach all of Africa and will make use of FAO's technical information on food security, editing it into radio format, thus making it accessible to a wide audience, including to people in the most remote rural areas. Information dissemination will rely on the adaptation to rural populations' needs, on the use of local languages and on the vast community radio network, radio still being the most popular communication medium in Africa.

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