Radio Asena, known as Dimtsi Asena and Sewt Asena in Tigrigna and Arabic respectively, yesterday aired successfully “the first ever Arabic broadcast to Eritrea by an independent opposition media” [According to Dave Kernick, that claim is not correct - see comments]. With that, Radio Asena has kept its promise and declared its objective of broadcasting to Eritrea in two languages, Mondays and Wednesdays in Tigrigna and Fridays in Arabic [1730-1800 UTC on 9610 kHz].
(Source: Eritrea Daily)
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on Feb 21st, 2009 at 12:58
They’re making a spurious claim, other opposition stations also broadcast in Arabic - Voice of Democratic Eritrea (www.nharnet.com), for instance.
on Feb 22nd, 2009 at 11:16
An RFI interview with the station’s founder can be heard on demand on the Voice of Asena website (assenna.com), along with archive files of this week’s broadcasts.