24 May 2005
Source: NGO latest
press release
FH 2005

Fondation Hirondelle - Switzerland

Website: http://www.hirondelle.org

Monrovia, 23 May 2005 - STAR radio will resume broadcasting as from
Wednesday 25 May 2005, at 16.00 local time. The independent news &
information radio station will transmit on FM & Short Wave to Liberia & the
Subregion from its studios located at Mamba Point, Monrovia, Liberia.

STAR radio was established by the Hirondelle Foundation - Media for Peace &
Human Dignity in 1997 and had established itself as a primary source of
independent & unbiased information for Liberians. It was forcibly closed by
the then President Charles Taylor in 2000 and could not be reopened as long
as he was in office. Taylor left Liberia for exile in Nigeria in August
2003, and in November the same year, the ban on STAR radio was lifted by
Gyude Bryant, the Chairman of the National Transitional Government which
replaced the Taylor regime.

STAR's program schedule is designed to be relevant to post-war Liberia. The
accent will be on news and current affairs. There will be bulletins on the
hour every hour, and three one hour current affairs programs daily. But as
Liberia moves towards elections in October there will be voter education
programs and an opportunity to quiz the multitude of political aspirants.
There will be programmes giving medical and other expert advice on all
sectors of society, and STAR radio will endevour to reach a mass Liberian
audience by broadcasting in all of Liberian

languages. STAR radio will be on air daily from 5.00 AM to 10.00 PM on FM
for Greater Monrovia, as well as 2 hours per day on Short Wave for Rural
Liberia & the Subregion.

STAR radio is a non profit organisation run by Liberians in partnership with
the Hirondelle Foundation. It is jointly funded by the European Commission,
Switzerland, the Netherlands, Norway & the United Kingdom.

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