World Radio Day 2023: presentation of Radio Ania in Mali
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Kader Touré, director of Radio Ania in Gao.
© Kader Toure
Text by: David Baché
1 min
February 13, 2023 is World Radio Day, established by UNESCO.
On this occasion, RFI pays tribute to all community radio stations in Africa and highlights one of them: Radio Ania in Gao, in northern Mali.
A radio at the service of populations and peace.
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Radio Ania – “commitment” or “determination” in the Songhai language – is broadcast in Gao and within a radius of approximately 75 kilometers around the city.
For the most remote villages, it is an essential vector of information.
“
The radio remains for these villages the only means of openness in the
world, explains Kader Touré, director of Radio Ania.
We deal with current events, new procedures for agriculture, for breeding.
We have engineers, here in Gao, who speak the local language, whom we often question.
This is all that makes me proud today to participate in the development of my community
”.
“The radio thus plays its role in the context of social cohesion”
To development and peace.
Mali is experiencing a security crisis that has been putting the community fabric to the test for many years.
Kader Touré believes that his antenna, and the others, have a role to play.
“
Here in Gao we are Songhais, Tamasheqs, Arabs, Bamanans, Fulanis,”
he continues.
We at the level of community radios we organized round tables, debates to understand the issue of the situation that prevails today.
Thus, the radio is playing its role in the context of social cohesion, and stitches together this social fabric which has been badly damaged because of this security crisis
”.
Like Radio Ania in Gao, more than 230 “non-commercial” community radios are officially registered in Mali.
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