Abuja, April 4, 2025 (AFP) - 'Cut off': US-backed radio goes off air in rural west Africa

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2025-04-04

When listeners in northern Nigeria tuned into Voice of America last month, they found music playing in place of their regular broadcast -- a telltale sign, historically, that soldiers had seized telecoms offices, and even the government. "Was there a coup in the US?" Babangida Jibrin, a VOA journalist, recalled one worried listener asking, as he and colleagues fielded unending calls after the US-funded station abruptly went off air. The dismantli......

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