A Kenyan Canadian has put together a portable FM radio station that can be powered by solar, battery or conventional electricity station. It fits in a briefcase and he hopes to use it to reach remote parts of Africa.He got the idea for a portable radio station after Kenya's last election, when violence erupted across the country. People in rural areas especially were experiencing an information blackout.
The government of South Sudan will be using about a dozen of the units to educate rural voters in the upcoming referendum on separation from North Sudan. And dozens more are being used to broadcast health and education programming in Western Africa.
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