The BBC's Global News boss, Peter Horrocks, is in the air again, heading to Nairobi, to announce that all Swahili output will in future be produced in East Africa. In radio, the morning show will come from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, and the drivetime show moves to Kenya’s capital Nairobi. Production of the website bbcswahili.com will be shared between the two cities.
Last year, the World Service launched a daily TV programme in Kiswahili.
Peter describes it as "an investment", and it probably is, in terms of capital. One might suspect long-term running costs could be lower outside the W1 post-code. It's presumably got FCO approval - but is it the sort of thing the licence-fee payer wants to spend on from 2014 ? And is the news agenda global, regional or local ?
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