Iraq election radio funded by Germany

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BERLIN - The German government is funding and helping to produce daily radio programmes for the upcoming Iraqi elections, the German Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday in a statement.

A team of 25 young Iraqi reporters has been trained to produce election stories under a programme by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, which has close links to German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democratic Party (SPD).

The reporters, based across Iraq, produce radio news casts that are sent via internet to Berlin where they are put together into 30 minute radio packages by a German-Iraqi team and then sent back to Iraq via satellite, said the statement.

These news packages have been broadcast since Monday by Radio Dijila, the Voice of Kurdistan and Kerbala FM.
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