Independent radio station will start broadcasting to Darfur Friday 21 November23.11.08 - 18:02:45Independent radio station will start broadcasting to Darfur Friday 21 November 2008 06:15.November 20, 2008 (KHARTOUM) – A new radio station went on air Saturday,said reporters of Radio Dabanga, who pledged to report from inside Sudan as well as abroad. News and information programmes will commence on December1st.[image: JPEG - 9.8 kb] *Radio Dabanga*The journalists will broadcast in three vernacular languages—soon to be expanded to four—and said they will produce "independent news and relevant information for all Darfuri: city folk, villagers and herdsmen, IDPs, refugees, Darfuri abroad and in Sudan."Radio Dabanga is a project of the Radio Darfur Network, a coalition of Sudanese journalists and international media development organizations, supported by a consortium of international donors, humanitarian community organizations and local NGOs. The radio station is operated by Press Now in the Netherlands.The station is named for a type of large storage vessel called dabanga (also sometimes written damanga or dabunga), which are used by Sudanese farmers to preserve food.Farmers tend to hide their valuables at the bottom of these containers, making them both precious and delicate. Thus there is an Arabic adage, "life is brittle as dabanga; roll it slowly." The radio station commented, "the message of this proverb is that diplomacy is needed in life to solve problems."BROADCAST DETAILS: SHORTWAVEThe station broadcasts on shortwave radio at 07:30-08:30 Sudan time on 7315 kHz, 41 meter band, or 13800 kHz, 22 meter band.BROADCAST DETAILS: SATELLITEBy satellite, Radio Dabanga hosts a programme called "Sawt El Alam" 07:30-08:30 Sudan time on Nile sat, Arab sat and Eutelsat, Radio Channel 3-4.NileSat 101, 7º West Africa and Middle East Reception details: 11.765 GHz/H symbol rate: 27.500 FEC: 3-4Arabsat BADR 4, 26º East Africa and Middle East Reception details: 11.996 GHz/H symbol rate: 27.500 FEC: 3-4Hotbird 6, 13.0º East Europe, North Africa and Middle East Reception details: 12.597 GHz/V symbol rate: 27.500 FEC:3-4Source: (ST)
RADIO DABANGA: UNA NUOVA RADIO PER IL DARFUR
Independent radio station will start broadcasting to Darfur Friday 21 November23.11.08 - 18:02:45Independent radio station will start broadcasting to Darfur Friday 21 November 2008 06:15.November 20, 2008 (KHARTOUM) – A new radio station went on air Saturday,said reporters of Radio Dabanga, who pledged to report from inside Sudan as well as abroad. News and information programmes will commence on December1st.[image: JPEG - 9.8 kb] *Radio Dabanga*The journalists will broadcast in three vernacular languages—soon to be expanded to four—and said they will produce "independent news and relevant information for all Darfuri: city folk, villagers and herdsmen, IDPs, refugees, Darfuri abroad and in Sudan."Radio Dabanga is a project of the Radio Darfur Network, a coalition of Sudanese journalists and international media development organizations, supported by a consortium of international donors, humanitarian community organizations and local NGOs. The radio station is operated by Press Now in the Netherlands.The station is named for a type of large storage vessel called dabanga (also sometimes written damanga or dabunga), which are used by Sudanese farmers to preserve food.Farmers tend to hide their valuables at the bottom of these containers, making them both precious and delicate. Thus there is an Arabic adage, "life is brittle as dabanga; roll it slowly." The radio station commented, "the message of this proverb is that diplomacy is needed in life to solve problems."BROADCAST DETAILS: SHORTWAVEThe station broadcasts on shortwave radio at 07:30-08:30 Sudan time on 7315 kHz, 41 meter band, or 13800 kHz, 22 meter band.BROADCAST DETAILS: SATELLITEBy satellite, Radio Dabanga hosts a programme called "Sawt El Alam" 07:30-08:30 Sudan time on Nile sat, Arab sat and Eutelsat, Radio Channel 3-4.NileSat 101, 7º West Africa and Middle East Reception details: 11.765 GHz/H symbol rate: 27.500 FEC: 3-4Arabsat BADR 4, 26º East Africa and Middle East Reception details: 11.996 GHz/H symbol rate: 27.500 FEC: 3-4Hotbird 6, 13.0º East Europe, North Africa and Middle East Reception details: 12.597 GHz/V symbol rate: 27.500 FEC:3-4Source: (ST)