PRESS RELEASE

11 November 2005

WEST AFRICA DEMOCRACY RADIO (WADR) STARTS BROADCASTING ON MONDAY 14 NOVEMBER

Dakar, Senegal – The West Africa Democracy Radio (WADR) will start
broadcasting on Monday 14 November 2005. The station will broadcast from
its studios in Dakar, Senegal, on 12000 KHz on Short Wave to the whole of
West Africa and beyond, and on 94.9 FM in Dakar. In the near future, it
will broadcast online, and also through local community radio partners in
the Mano River Union (MRU) countries of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.
These partners will also generate some of its broadcast content.

For this phase, which ends on 1 January 2006, WADR will broadcast for two
hours in English and French starting at 07:00 GMT and will focus on the
Mano River Union countries of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. It has
already set up offices in Monrovia, Conakry and Freetown. The offices will
generate news and other materials that promote dialogue and democracy in
the region. WADR will later expand to bring onboard other West African
countries including Chad and Cameroon.

The station will air  programmes on news and current affairs as well as
magazine programmes on good governance, health, agriculture, gender, youth
and sports with a view to promoting peace and human security, transparency
and accountability in governance, regional economic integration, and
social and cultural development amongst the peoples of the region.

A brainchild of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), the
station is conceived to be the hub of a West African network of public,
private and community radio stations, creating an avenue for networking
between these radio stations and a channel for dialogue among the peoples
of the respective countries they serve.

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