Wednesday, September 20, 2006

AFRICA TO BE INVADED BY AL JAZEERA

Al Jazeera Int’l plans bureaus all over Africa

Doha • Al Jazeera International yesterday announced its full line-up of bureaus and correspondents across Africa before its global launch slated for later this year. There will be bureaus in Cairo (Egypt), Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Nairobi (Kenya), Johannesburg (South Africa) and Harare (Zimbabwe).

A release said that in addition, Al Jazeera International will share the resources of Al Jazeera Arabic Channel’s African bureaus located in Ndjamena (Chad), Tripoli (Libya), Nouakchott (Mauritania), Rabat (Morocco), Dakar (Senegal), Mogadishu (Somalia), Johannesburg (South Africa) and Khartoum (Sudan).

On a visit to South Africa, Al Jazeera International Managing Director Nigel Parsons said: “Our reporting from Africa will be unparallleled. We will have more bureaus and resources dedicated to Africa than any other global broadcaster."

Steve Clark, Director of News, said in Doha: "We are planning other bureaus across Africa and will be announcing them in due course.”

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