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Paris, France (PANA) - Quality radio remains ever universal, popular and more reliable in an era of artificial intelligence (AI) and social media, including in Costa Rica, where unique programming raises awareness and promotes public participation on climate decision making in Latin America, the theme of this year’s World Radio Day, marked annually on 13 February

©- - 13 february 2025 - 17:04:36 - thread (1021 words)


Paris, France (PANA) - From supporting forthcoming elections in South Sudan, to getting war-weary people to buy into peace processes; to ensuring high school girls in Afghanistan can keep learning even after they have been banned from classrooms: radio continues to be relevant in the digital era

©- - 14 february 2023 - 06:03:22 - thread (820 words)


Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkina Faso's Education ministry on Thursday a radio frequency to provide lessons for students because they cannot attend school under prevailing circumstances of the coronavirus pandemic and insecurity in several regions of the country, PANA learned from official sources

©- - 24 april 2020 - 16:02:46 - thread (393 words)


Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkina Faso currently has 157 radio stations, Communication Minister Rémis Dandjinou said on the occasion of the 9th World Radio Day, celebrated on Thursday, under the theme: "We are diversity

©- - 13 february 2020 - 10:51:22 - thread (264 words)


Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) – The "denominational radios" in the Ivorian media landscape are getting better listening audience than conventional stations, according to a survey ordered by the country's national high audiovisual communication authority (HACA)

©- - 18 march 2019 - 17:55:20 - thread (337 words)


Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - Africa Media, the company currently operating Africa N°1 Paris, has obtained a licence to operate an FM radio station in Brazzaville, the capital of Congo
©- - 07 december 2018 - 20:44:56 - thread (118 words)


New York, US (PANA) - In an era of dramatic advances in communications, radio retains its power to entertain, educate, inform and inspire, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday, marking World Radio Day with a call to celebrate both radio and sports as ways of helping people achieve their potential
©- - 14 february 2018 - 05:11:57 - thread (486 words)


Paris, France (PANA) - Extolling the usefulness of radio, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said on Monday that radio has never been so dynamic, engaging and important in the midst of deep change in ways to share and access information
©- - 13 february 2017 - 17:29:46 - thread (301 words)


Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The stage is set for the long-planned ECOWAS radio and television station to become a reality in 2017, after the necessary road-map for its operations were put in place by member states
©- - 01 november 2015 - 10:03:54 - thread (185 words)


New York, US (PANA) - Projecting that the use of nuclear power will continue to grow in the coming decades, the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has urged countries with nuclear energy programmes to share their spent fuel and radioactive waste management know-how with less-experienced countries
©- - 16 june 2015 - 14:21:26 - thread (384 words)


New York, US (PANA) - The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Monday said it is working with South Sudan Women's General Association and a local radio station to promote freedom of expression for women in the country through the use of radio
©- - 06 april 2015 - 15:56:02 - thread (178 words)


Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Radio frequency (RF) exposures near mobile antennas have remained consistently well below international safety limits in African countries, compared to Europe, Americas and Asia, according to a GSMA and International Finance Corporation (IFC) report, The private Guardian newspaper Friday, quoting the report, titled "African base station exposures a 'small fraction' of safety limits”, analysed almost 260,000 measurements around mobile base stations in seven African countries since 2001
©- - 19 december 2014 - 12:47:59 - thread (412 words)


Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) – Burundian Head of State, Pierre Nkurunziza, Tuesday inaugurated a community radio for the youth, “Radio Colombe”, at the youth centre of Kamenge, in the western part of the Burundian capital
©- - 10 june 2014 - 17:48:31 - thread (231 words)


Yaoundé, Cameroon (PANA) - Cameroonian Communication Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary and Posts and Telecommunications Minister Jean Pierre Biyiti Bi Essam have signed a partnership agreement for the restart of community radio stations in Cameroon
©- - 04 june 2014 - 08:26:18 - thread (137 words)


Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - State-run Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) Director General, Benson Tembo, has been sent on "forced leave" for what authorities called "failure to take lawful instructions"
©- - 23 may 2014 - 13:48:38 - thread (439 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Cooperation has launched a 24-hour online radio station aimed at enhancing communication on the country’s foreign policy
©- - 18 october 2013 - 09:35:39 - thread (264 words)


Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - The privately-owned Zodiak Broadcasting Station (ZBS) has emerged the most-listened to radio station in Malawi, beating the state-run Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC), according to the Malawi Communication Regulatory Authority (MACRA)
©- - 09 september 2013 - 15:26:51 - thread (542 words)


Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The first radio station in Nigeria dedicated to reporting on the traffic situation in the nation's grid-lock-prone economic capital city of Lagos has started full transmission
©- - 30 may 2012 - 08:57:55 - thread (289 words)


Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria’s first radio station that will focus on the traffic situation in Lagos, the commercial nerve centre of the country, will begin transmission on 29 May, according to a spokesman of the Lagos state government, Lateef Aderemi Ibirogba
©- - 24 may 2012 - 19:54:14 - thread (306 words)


New York- US (PANA) – A US--based media rights group, Committee to Protect Journa lists (CPJ), on Wednesday asked a magistrate in Malawi to allow an opposition ra d io station sealed by police during general elections on 19 May to reopen
©- - 27 may 2009 - 22:07:00 - thread (320 words)


Banjul- Gambia (PANA) -- The Gambian government Friday denied a story broadcast b y Walfajr radio that the Gambian soldiers illegally entered and operated in Sene g al
©- - 17 april 2009 - 14:38:00 - thread (200 words)