Xinhua News Agency provides satellite station to Sierra Leone News Agency

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.

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