Press ReleasesSenator Barack Obama Interviewed by Internews' Radio Station in Chad
(September 5, 2006) Illinois Senator Barack Obama (D), who completed a four-nation trip to Africa last week, was interviewed by La Voix du Ouaddai reporter Issaka Allafouza at the Abéché airport in Chad on his trip to Guereda where UNHCR is supporting Darfur refugees. La Voix du Ouaddai is a community radio station established by Internews to serve refugees from Darfur and the local Chadian population. The radio station broadcasts a mixture of news, information and music for six hours every day from a frontier town in Chad. It was established in conjunction with Internews' local partner, the Association pour le Développement des Médias Communautaires. After his visit to a refugee camp on the Chad-Sudan border, Obama said that the Darfurian refugees are concerned about the security situation at home and look forward to the deployment of a UN force. In addition, Obama said the African Union mission in Darfur had been hampered by lack of clear mandate and a lack of resources, along with an approach that lacked a sense of urgency. On his trip to Africa, Obama also visited his father's homeland of Kenya where he and his wife took HIV tests to attempt to alleviate the stigma against testing in that country. More about Internews' radio station in Chad |
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