DRC - Political and business motives suspected in radio station's closure

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders deplores the closure of a Mishapi Voice TV, a popular privately-owned radio station in Goma, in the eastern province of Nord-Kivu, on the alleged grounds that its broadcasts were disrupting air traffic control communications at Goma's airport. The station's transmitter was dismantled and removed on 23 March by representatives of the Congo Post and Telecommunications Regulatory Agency (ARPTC), who said it was jamming the frequency used by the Air Transport Authority (...)

© Reporters sans frontières - mardi 31 mars 2015