Amadou Vamoulke elected President of URTI

The Director-general visited the head of the International University for radio and television last Monday.

During the various working sessions he held with the secretariat general of the Paris-based institution, makers of RFI, Executive Director of CRTV did not hesitate to raise the importance of URTI in the media world. "I told them that it would be a shame for Europeans to starve an organization with lofty goals like what we have here, for questions of non-contributions," he said.

Exposing the current technological context in media (the digital switchover) with its corollary, the strong demand for content, and recalling the history of URTI which each is impregnated with many realities, Amadou Vamoulke managed to bring his world to reason, from the top of his duties as vice-president ensuring the interim head of the institution since the resignation of the president.

"It is on this position that members, convinced, decided to bring the Organization afloat. The positions that had not been occupied for two years were immediately filled.

And some country representatives have even launched the process for the payment of their contributions. "And when we arrived at the position of the president, I did not need to file my candidacy: I was elected unanimously", assured the new president of URTI, pleased to bring back this victory for Cameroon.

In the aftermath, he also obtained a post of Auditor to CRTV. Originally, international radio University (URI), the Organization was born in 1949 at the end of the second world war under the dual sponsorship of Unesco and the French broadcasting.

It promoted the cultures of the peoples through radio programmes to avoid new conflicts. In 1961, the URI welcomed TV and became URTI. After more than 60 years of existence, its exchange programmes were hindered.

It has reinforced its position at the forefront of the major international awards for radio and television, in terms of participating countries. Tabe Enonchong and David Chuye Bunyui, CRTV journalists, won one of these prizes in the past five years.