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Excerpt from a fairly long article that kinda gives a sense of why some of these African countries are so hard to log.
From: The Zimbabwe Telegraph Zimbabwe new media evades censors | Zimbabwe Telegraph
The Mugabe government’s hold on traditional broadcast media is comprehensive, following a sustained clampdown. All broadcasters transmitting from Zimbabwean soil are state-run and toe the government line. Radio is the main source of information for many Zimbabweans. Although no private stations exist within Zimbabwe itself, the UK-based SW Radio Africa has been broadcasting into the country via shortwave and the internet since 2001.
More recently it has launched a SMS (short message service) text service. Another station, Voice of the People, set up by former staff from the state-run Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation with funding from the Soros Foundation and a Dutch non-governmental organisation (NGO), operates using a leased shortwave transmitter in Madagascar.
Shortwave radios have been confiscated by Central Intelligence Organisation operatives; these include solar-powered and clockwork wind-up radios supplied by the Radio Communication Project (an NGO-sponsored scheme to help remote rural communities access independent radio broadcasts from outside Zimbabwe). These confiscations were reported at least as far back as December 2006. The donated clockwork radios have proved a valuable way for Zimbabweans to receive news. Batteries are either too expensive or unavailable and electricity mains supply is erratic.
Only about 2.4% of the population has a personal computer and around 11% have access to the internet (usually through internet cafes).
From: The Zimbabwe Telegraph Zimbabwe new media evades censors | Zimbabwe Telegraph
The Mugabe government’s hold on traditional broadcast media is comprehensive, following a sustained clampdown. All broadcasters transmitting from Zimbabwean soil are state-run and toe the government line. Radio is the main source of information for many Zimbabweans. Although no private stations exist within Zimbabwe itself, the UK-based SW Radio Africa has been broadcasting into the country via shortwave and the internet since 2001.
More recently it has launched a SMS (short message service) text service. Another station, Voice of the People, set up by former staff from the state-run Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation with funding from the Soros Foundation and a Dutch non-governmental organisation (NGO), operates using a leased shortwave transmitter in Madagascar.
Shortwave radios have been confiscated by Central Intelligence Organisation operatives; these include solar-powered and clockwork wind-up radios supplied by the Radio Communication Project (an NGO-sponsored scheme to help remote rural communities access independent radio broadcasts from outside Zimbabwe). These confiscations were reported at least as far back as December 2006. The donated clockwork radios have proved a valuable way for Zimbabweans to receive news. Batteries are either too expensive or unavailable and electricity mains supply is erratic.
Only about 2.4% of the population has a personal computer and around 11% have access to the internet (usually through internet cafes).
