West Africa: Gambian journalists launch online radio

A group of Gambian media practitioners in Dakar, Senegal, and The Gambia have recently launched an online radio that features mainly issues affecting The Gambia. Radio Alternative Voice, found at on the World Wide Web, offers programmes in English, Mandingka and Wollof. With the current political atmosphere in The Gambia, the Dakar-based journalists, with their counter-parts in Banjul, felt it necessary to initiate an online media with the sole objective of providing the Gambian people with an alternative means of accessing impartial and independent information.