Watchdog condemns Zimbabwean jamming of London-based SW Radio Africa.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

Text of press release by the Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) on 5 June

According to information provided to the International Press Institute (IPI), the mediumwave signal of the London-based SW Radio Africa is apparently being jammed in and around the capital of Zimbabwe, Harare.

The apparent jamming follows reports over the last two weeks of the break-up of the mediumwave signal inside Zimbabwe.

At first, these problems appeared to be related to signal difficulties; however, on 26 June, the station concluded that the previous problems were merely tests in the lead-up to a …