How regional radio put Sierra Leone on the right wavelength after unrest

Interrupted by two military coups and a civil war, Thomson Foundation’s three-year project to create four regional radio stations and train journalists to report rationally and truthfully in Sierra Leone continued once the country was considered relatively stable. A key task was to prepare the country’s media for general elections. Thanks to the radio stations, government activities were reported outside of the capital after years of absence and a parliamentary press gallery was established in the capital, Freetown.