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Overview

Xinhua News Agency provides satellite station to Sierra Leone News Agency

Commitment Year•2001Country of Activity•Sierra LeoneDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•Sierra LeoneSector•CommunicationsFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Jan 1, 2001
Start (actual)
Jan 1, 2005
End (actual)
Jan 28, 2005

Geospatial footprint

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The purpose of the project is to provide satellite stations to Sierra Leone News Agency. More detailed location information can be found at: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/297315415

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

State-owned companies

  • Xinhua News Agency

Receiving agencies

State-owned companies

  • Sierra Leone News Agency (SLENA)

Loan desecription

Xinhua News Agency provides satellite station to Sierra Leone News Agency

Narrative

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Project narrative

In 2001, China's state-owned Xinhua News Agency signed an agreement on media cooperation with Sierra Leone News Agency (SLENA). Xinhua's Editor-in-Chief Nan Zhenzhong and the visiting SLENA president, Abdul Karim Jalloh, signed the agreement at the headquarters of Xinhua. Under the deal, the two news organizations will exchange their English news reports and Xinhua will provide SLENA with news-receiving equipment. In addition, the two sides will render assistance to their correspondents based in each other's country and visiting press missions. On 28th January, 2005, a formal hand-over ceremony of the satellite station donated and installed by the Xinhua News Agency (Xinhua) in China to the Sierra Leone News Agency (SLENA) took place in SLENA’s news room. On behalf of Xinhua News Agency, Mr. Dai Yuming, the Political Counsellor of Chinese Embassy signed the hand-over certificate with Mr. Samoura, the Managing Director of SLENA. This donation resulted from the 2001 Agreement on News Exchange and Cooperation between Xinhua and SLENA. As a platform of sharing news with Xinhua, this station marks the successful realization of acquiring news directly from China in Sierra Leone. It is alleged that this station is the first of its kind for Sierra Leone to share the news provided by foreign news agencies free of charge.