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Radio 5 hosts Freedom Fone Fighters in Arusha

Friday 05/25/2012  18:02  |  by Brenda Burrell

Bart Sullivan is affectionately known as 'Captain' by the team of ICT officers who work at Farm Radio International's regional offices in Ghana, Malawi, Ethiopia and Tanzania. In my eyes, Bart earned his stripes today when he pulled off an audacious first for Freedom Fone and Farm Radio at Radio 5, a busy commercial radio station in Arusha's Njiro suburb. All round nice guy, Bart is also sharp and innovative... and as this story shows, very persuasive too.

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Training raises more questions than answers

Tuesday 05/22/2012  15:39  |  by Brenda Burrell

Evening discussion topics

Arusha Tech Training - Lots to talk about later!

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Arusha Training for Freedom Fone Technical Administrators

Tuesday 05/22/2012  12:49  |  by Brenda Burrell

Tich Siguake and I arrived in Arusha on the weekend to prepare for the start of our training workshop for ICT officers at Farm Radio International's HQ in Tanzania. We flew in to the exotic sounding Kilimanjaro airport at about 7pm where we were met by FRI's ICT and Radio Specialist, Bart Sullivan.

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Training with Deutsche Welle Akademie

Friday 05/11/2012  16:39  |  by Webmaster

Last week the Freedom Fone team completed a training hosted by the DW Akademie. The training focused on how to script, record and edit good quality audio for a variety of appropriate formats including: Vox Pops, news stories and explanation pieces. All files need to be audible and clear to callers using mobile phones.

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Tunisian zeroes

Sunday 05/06/2012  00:50  |  by Brenda Burrell

Having lived through the hyperinflation years in Zimbabwe, you would be forgiven for assuming that I'd be inured to biggish numbers. Not so. Tunisians have the unusual practice of adding an extra zero to the decimals following their numbers. So 127.000 Dinar is actually 127.00 Dinar in the Zimbabwean numbering system - not 1,270.

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On the palace steps

Saturday 05/05/2012  00:03  |  by Brenda Burrell

The award ceremony for the 2012 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize was held at the Presidential Palace in Tunis on May 3.

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Tunisian TV station head fined for airing 'Persepolis' animated film

Friday 05/04/2012  12:48  |  by Brenda Burrell

Persepolis graphicMedia practitioners and activists gathered in Tunis for World Press Freedom Day were shocked to hear that Nabil Karoui, head of Nessma television station, has been fined for broadcasting 'Persepolis' the award-winning Franco-Iranian film about a child's account of the Iranian revolution.

Karoui was prosecuted for broadcasting the film on TV even though it had previously been approved for distribution in cinemas.

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Gambia: Mobile Phone Project Launched to Enhance Livelihood of Rural Women

Friday 05/04/2012  02:00  |  by Webmaster

By Momodou Jawo and Alieu Ceesay

Basse, Urr — A collaborative initiative dubbed 'Empowering Rural Women Mobile Phone Project' by the American Embassy in Banjul and the Forum for African Women Educationalists The Gambia (FAWEGAM) was recently launched in Nyakoi Taibatu village in the Wulli West District, Upper River Region (URR).

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IREX Welcomes World Press Freedom Fellows in Tunis

Friday 05/04/2012  00:25  |  by Brenda Burrell

Chisolm, Whitehouse and Fitzpatrick welcome WPFD Fellows

L to R: Stewart Chisholm, Open Society Foundations Media Program; Mark Whitehouse, IREX; Kathleen M. Fitzpatrick, U.S. Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor

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