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May 4th 05, 08:25 PM
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New cland for Gambia April 27-29
Apparently via transmitter in Germany from what I've read.
dxAce wrote: ** GAMBIA [non]. Target: Gambia --- By Nick Grace April 26, 2005 The Gambia joins the growing list of tyrannies targeted by opposition radio broadcasts this week with the launch of a weekly fifteen-minute news program produced by Web savvy exiles in the United States. The program, which had not been named at press time, is the latest effort coordinated by Save the Gambia Democracy Project (STGDP) to promote press freedoms, democratic liberties, respect for human rights, the rule of law and good governance inside the West African nation. Test broadcasts, Clandestine Radio Watch (CRW) has learned, will be conducted on April 27, 28 and 29 between 2000 and 2015 GMT on 9430 kHz. The test broadcasts will contain excerpts of interviews in the Wollof, English and local languages for the purpose of testing reception inside Gambia and will not contain a station identification. Formal broadcasts will begin soon thereafter from an undisclosed transmitter location. STGDP is a relatively new movement that was formed on the Gambian Independence Day, February 18, in 2004 after months of intense online chatter among exiles throughout North America. It was formally launched on the campus of Morehouse College in Atlanta - Martin Luther King, Jr.'s alma mater, an irony not lost on its members. The group has sought to make a direct impact on the country's political scene and successfully brought the fragmented opposition together under the National Alliance for Democracy and Development (NADD). Its efforts, including the new radio program, are meant to send a signal to the regime of former Sergeant Yahya Jemmah that the upcoming elections in October 2006 will be no cakewalk. Since taking power in 1994, Jemmah's consolidation of power has proceeded against the winds of democratic change sweeping across the world - and inside Gambia. Attempts to pass severe restrictions on the press in 2002 led to mass outrage and, ultimately, a repeal of the legislation. More recent attempts to muzzle the press, however, have been more successful and even deadly. What began with arson attacks, intimidation and threats finally culminated in the murder of Deyda Hydara, editor and co-owner of a private weekly and stringer for Agence-France-Presse and Reporters San Frontières. The U.S. State Department considers such developments as "shortcomings," however, and in 2002 "determined a democratically elected government had assumed office" in Banjul and lifted sanctions, according to its 2005 human rights report. While engagement is touted as official policy, none of the U.S.-funded NGOs run democratization projects or maintain a presence in Gambia. The Gambian diaspora finds itself going alone. The radio program, sources within STGDP tell CRW, is a grassroots effort dependent upon the generosity of its supporters and should be considered a wake-up call to those in the regime that whether through print, radio or the Internet the pulse of freedom cannot be silenced. "We are going to be a force to open the people's eyes," STGDP Spokeswoman Sigga Jagne told CRW. "We are not bound by the same sanctions our domestic journalists face. Through our programs we will send a message of hope to our people inside the Gambia that those of us outside do care and are willing to do what it takes to bring change." Save the Gambian Democracy Project can be reached through its Web site at http://www.sunugambia.com (Nick Grace C., CRW April 26 via DXLD, Glenn Hauser, dxld yahoo) dxAce Michigan USA |
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