[HCDX] Zimbabwe Government Confirms Jamming Foreign Radio Broadcasts

["Zacharias Liangas " <greekdx@xxxxxxxxx>]

Zimbabwe Government Confirms Jamming Foreign Radio Broadcasts
http://www.playfuls.com/news_10_16694-Zimbabwe-Government-
Confirms-Jamming-Foreign-Radio-Broadcasts.html

	   	
A senior official in Zimbabwe has confirmed that President Robert 
Mugabe's government is jamming foreign radio broadcasts into the 
country, reports said Thursday.

The Zimbabwe government is jamming the signal of Voice of America's 
Studio 7 programme, which broadcasts news and information into 
Zimbabwe most evenings, deputy Information Minister Bright Matonga 
was quoted as saying.

"We cannot allow foreigners to invade our airwaves without our 
authority," Matonga told parliament, according to quotes carried by the 
official Herald newspaper.

"We will continue to do it [jam their signal]. We need to protect our 
sovereignty. If you go to England you will not receive any foreign radio 
station," he said.

It was the first official confirmation of the practice, which has been 
condemned by press freedom groups.

Matonga was responding to a question from opposition Movement for 
Democratic Change (MDC) legislator Willas Madzimure in parliament 
Wednesday on why the authorities were jamming Studio 7's shortwave 
broadcasts, when most areas of the country cannot receive any local 
radio or television signal.

Only around 30 per cent of areas in the southern African country can 
receive any signal from the four state-controlled radio stations and its 
sole television station.

The Zimbabwe government is believed to be using Chinese equipment 
to jam the signals of at least three private radio stations that broadcast 
into Zimbabwe.

Studio 7, which is based in Washington, started to experience 
interference with its signal last year. Another two stations, London- 
based SW Radio Africa and Voice of the People have also had their 
signals jammed.

c 2007 DPA


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