Afghanistan’s first ever independent community FM radio station called The Voice of Afghan Women began broadcasting in Kabul on International Women’s Day (March 8). It is heard at FM 91.6 with a power of 600 watts.

The station is managed and operated by women. Women’s issues and activities will constitute the bulk of its programming. Craft-skills training for the station’s announcers and producers has been provided by IMPACS and INTERNEWS, two international media NGOs.

Gerald Brown’s e-broadcastnewsasia reports that UNESCO Kabul is financing the station and has supplied another complete FM station to Kabul University’s Faculty of Journalism, expected to go on air shortly.