French Article on Daily Nation - Translation

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The following is an unedited computer generated translation of the French article about Daily Nation which appeared in one of the newspapers of Cameroon. The French article can be referenced in the Recent News section.

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Media corporate Body Yaounde - Cameroon

TUESDAY, June 29, 2004 - 06:02 Communication_Sup:

Daily Nation: Quality rhymes with passion. This daily kényan transported his power in all the Africa of the east. E. G. S.

To the even entitles that tourism and the transportation company aerial Kenya Airways, the nonspecialized newspaper lodged in The Nation Centers, on Kimathi Street, to the heart of Nairobi, is the one of the international current windows of the country of Jomo Kenyatta. 220.000 pulled copies every days, and a successful expansion in the under region ended up to do Daily Nation, the reference in the matter of in a hurry, not only to the Kenya, but in all the Africa of the east.

The most read one and more liked of the newspapers kenyans does not hesitate to show very criticizes itself with regard to the authorities of Nairobi. His independence has not besides never taken summer to defect, since his creation October 3 1960. The title then had promised of "to do all this that is in our possibility to help the Kenya and the other territories of eastern Africa to do their perilous transition towards an African government and a total independence, of manner so peaceful and constructive as possible".

Vast political program that is not necessarily more it even today, since the Kenya and its neighbors are since during become definitely independent and are governed by national. But, the title kept his guiding line of permanent research of the truth, of defense of the oppressed and of development of the identity is African. That says, it is not anymore only the fight newspaper of the origins, and transformed itself progressively in a true media empire in the under region. Daily Nation belongs to the even groups press that The East African, the weekly one of reference in Africa of the is been founded in 1994, 60 000 copies every week, published simultanément in Uganda, to the Kenya and in Tanzania.

The group Nation publishes equally a regional weekly other, Coast Expresses, and the daily ones in language Kaswahili: Taifa Leo and Taifa Jumapili. Well more, it became owner in 2001 of the daily unique ougandais, The Monitor, thus of his radio chain urban Monitor Fm. The true spider canvas that is the group Nation also spread itself in Tanzania, where it took participations in the corporation Mwananchi Communications that possesses two title of newspapers and Radio Uhuru Fm. The Nation Medium Group, been founded by the prince Aga Khan, asserts itself thus every day as the most important press group in the Africa region of the east.

It established offices in each of the concerned capitals: Dar are Salam and Kampala notably. For some to come back to the newspaper Daily Nation, not at all any anchorage of all the empire, his history confuses itself practically with the one of the modern Kenya. Without never to yield to his media personality independent, not leaving never to influence itself or by the powers of money, or by the different political forces, or by the religious lobbies. With the one of the sites Internet more rich of the continent, the title knew also to adapt itself to the new technologies of the communication, and his reputation of serious one today is known through the planet