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Tightening up on the media

    BUJUMBURA

    The DRC government announced yesterday that it was sending a mission of top civil servants to inspect private radio and television stations. The team’s mandate, according to the Information Ministry quoted by state media, includes verifying the authenticity of the administrative documents authorising the broadcasters to operate. Other tasks include monitoring the stations’ broadcasting reports to see if they are sticking to the programmes they initially set and checking whether they are regularly paying their license fees.

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