Listeners of Radio France International (RFI) in The Gambia have in recent days had cause to scramble for alternative sources of news, entertainment and all other services hitherto made accessible to them by the FM station, which has been out of transmission since Tuesday, 15th January.
 
Meanwhile in a news release from the Department of State for Communications, Information and Technology, the department has repudiated with resentment a news report carried out by RFI claiming that some terrorists who murdered four French nationals in Mauritania escaped through Guinea Bissau to the Gambia. The report, the release says, is erroneous. The release countered that the fugitives, some of whom have been apprehended, escaped to Guinea Bissau through Senegal as reported over France Van Carte and the BBC. Therefore in line with the ethics of professional media, the Department of State for Communications, Information and Technology forwarded a fitting correction to the story by RFI.