The BBC World Service is launching special Ebola broadcasts for West Africa starting today (Monday 22nd September). Each evening shortwave transmissions to the region will be increased. There will be a round-up of News concentrating
on efforts to combat the virus particularly to the three worst affected countries: Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
News About West Africa will be a 9-minute daily programme (Monday to Friday)
broadcast live at 19:50 GMT around the world and presented by BBC
Africa’s Kim Chakanetsa. Through local stories, correspondents and interviews,
the broadcast will include the latest information about local, regional and
international effort to contain and combat the disease. There is a great deal of
new information emerging about how best to respond to Ebola and the
programme aims to share that with an African and global audience.
BBC Africa in conjuncti with the BBC’s international development charity, Media
Action, has since August been broadcasting two weekly Ebola bulletins on the
BBC’s English, French and Hausa services.
BBC Media Action has also been helping to tackle dangerous misinformation
about the disease in a new radio programme. Kick Ebola Nar Salone (Kick Ebola
out of Sierra Leone), is a 30-minute show produced weekly and broadcast three
times a week on 35 partner stations across the country.
Peter Horrocks, Director, BBC World Service Group says: “Lack of knowledge
and myths about the disease are killing people as surely as Ebola is. Quality
information from both within and outside the countries affected about how the
risks of Ebola can be safely managed will save lives. The range of emergency
activities on Ebola from the BBC World Service are in the finest traditions of the
humanitarian instincts of our broadcasting.
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