BBC
Swahili fields top team for African Nations Cup
BBC
Swahili is gearing up to bring its listeners comprehensive coverage
of the African Nations Cup in Tunisia, with up to the minute reports,
interviews and expert analysis.
The
service is sending its best sports journalist, Alex Mureithi,
known to the BBC Swahili listeners for his vast experience in sports
reporting, to cover the Tunisia 2004 games.
Starting
from day one on Saturday 24 January, BBC Swahili will be slotting
live reports on the results in all its four transmissions throughout
the day.
Tido
Mhando, Head of BBC Swahili, says the service is looking forward
to an exciting football contest.
"While
BBC Swahili will be closely following three teams from East and
Central Africa - Kenya, Rwanda and DR Congo - there will still be
a lot of coverage of the games in all groups and venues," he
says.
"Until
the final match on 14 February, there will be key interviews and
games analysis by best football experts."
A total
of 22 people will cover the African Nations Cup games for BBC World
Service in Arabic, English, French, Hausa, Somali and Swahili.
The
English and French programmes will offer live broadcasts of the
quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals.
The
BBC World Service African football website bbc.kongjiang.org/www.bbc.co.uk/africanfootball
has been launched as a dedicated resource for fans of African football.
Visitors
to the site will be able to link to an African Nations Cup microsite
featuring latest results, league tables and a special wall chart.
Related
releases
African
Nations Cup 2004 on BBC (06.01.04)
Nigerian
footballer wins BBC award (09.01.04)
Notes
to Editors
BBC
Swahili brings accurate and up-to-date information to listeners
in East and Central Africa with news and current affairs, sports,
entertainment and features, every day, seven days a week, at 03.00,
04.00, 15.30 and 17.45 GMT.
For
text and audio, go to bbcswahili.com.
BBC
World Service in English broadcasts more than 25 hours of programmes
a week specifically for Africa.
For
sports fans, Fast Track and Inside Track include unrivalled news
and features on African sport.
BBC
Afrique
is the world's reference radio in francophone Africa.
It
has built its reputation and its approach on strict editorial standards
based on principles of impartiality, objectivity and fairness and
can be heard on FM in a dozen French-speaking African countries
including Burkina Faso, Senegal, Mali and DR Congo and can be accessed
online at bbcfrench.com.
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