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Article: Sierra Leone : Al Jazeera expands reach in Africa.
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- May 13, 2009
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Byline: sandesh03
The Al Jazeera Network announced today the launch of its Al Jazeera Mobile SMS alerts service with African partners Africell in Sierra Leone and Strike Media in South Africa.
Al Jazeera English, an international English-language news channel, has a worldwide distribution of more than 140m households and its reach has topped 25m homes in Sub-Saharan Africa alone.
Al Jazeera English has seen extensive growth in Africa in 2009, with a number of deals taking it into millions of new homes across the continent.
The first half of the year has seen the channel launch on Gambia Radio & Television; Sierra Leone's ABC TV ...