How we checked Watoto Radio
Everything published about this station was read from the station's own website or its own stream, and every fact below names the page it came from and the year it was read. We changed 2 things about this entry. We also found 6 things we could have published and decided not to.
What we publish, and where each part came from
| What we say | Read from | When |
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Description
Watoto Radio presents itself as "La voix des enfants de la RDC", a 24-hour webradio and podcast service run as a programme of the Fondation Miel-Fondal and founded by the journalist Daniel Makasi. Its own pages say children are trained in radio production and then put on air to make their own programmes, reports and debates. Its stated strands are climate and environment awareness, children's rights and social protection, civic and cultural education, and development through entertainment. It also builds a network of partner FM stations across the country that rebroadcast its output.
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WATOTO RADIO (watotoradio.info; the homepage frames the app at /spa/, whose text is served in this bundle) | 2026 |
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Artists
None named; the site publishes no playlist, song history or now-playing display, and its Zeno.fm mount refused a metadata request.
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WATOTO RADIO (watotoradio.info; the homepage frames the app at /spa/, whose text is served in this bundle) | 2026 |
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Contact route
A "Contactez-nous" section on the homepage with an email address, a telephone number and a newsletter sign-up, plus the station's own Facebook, YouTube and X accounts and a separate contact block on the founder's page. No postal address and no web form.
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WATOTO RADIO (watotoradio.info; the homepage frames the app at /spa/, whose text is served in this bundle) | 2026 |
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Contact page
https://watotoradio.info/#contact
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WATOTO RADIO (watotoradio.info; the homepage frames the app at /spa/, whose text is served in this bundle) | 2026 |
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Era
Not applicable; the station's own pages make no claim about the decades its music comes from.
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WATOTO RADIO (watotoradio.info; the homepage frames the app at /spa/, whose text is served in this bundle) | 2026 |
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Music
Children's and youth speech radio with music, described on its own pages as "Emissions sur les droits, l'environnement, la sante et l'education" plus "Musique, jeux interactifs et histoires pour stimuler la creativite".
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WATOTO RADIO (watotoradio.info; the homepage frames the app at /spa/, whose text is served in this bundle) | 2026 |
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Language
French throughout; the whole site, the mission text, the campaign pages and the editorial-charter title are French, and one campaign carries the Swahili title "Batoto Hange na Bichuma" alongside its French name "Les enfants loin des ferrailles", so Swahili is used in branding at least.
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WATOTO RADIO (watotoradio.info; the homepage frames the app at /spa/, whose text is served in this bundle) | 2026 |
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Kind
Live 24-hour internet stream, stated as "Streaming 24h/24" and "Webradio En Direct", served from a Zeno.fm mount, with a separate podcast strand said to be produced by the trained children themselves.
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WATOTO RADIO (watotoradio.info; the homepage frames the app at /spa/, whose text is served in this bundle) | 2026 |
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Worth knowing
It publishes a table of 17 named partner radio stations with province, territory and FM frequency, from Radio Beroya FM on 105.0 MHz in Goma to Radio Kankamana on 92.00 MHz in Kasai Oriental, offering its programmes for rebroadcast.
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WATOTO RADIO (watotoradio.info; the homepage frames the app at /spa/, whose text is served in this bundle) | 2026 |
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Where
Goma, Nord-Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, given as "Goma, Nord-Kivu, RDC" on its own "Region d'Intervention" section; no frequency of its own, it is an internet station carried on partner FM stations.
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WATOTO RADIO (watotoradio.info; the homepage frames the app at /spa/, whose text is served in this bundle) | 2026 |
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On air
None named as on-air voices. The "Notre Equipe Dirigeante" section names staff roles only: Daniel Makasi (Fondateur & Directeur General), Laurence Wansingya (Directrice Executive), Sarah Annabelle (Chef des Programmes), Albert Isse (Redacteur en Chef), Nicole Barungu (Chargee des Finances). I looked at the homepage team section, the founder page at /daniel-makasi and all four campaign pages; no presenter list exists.
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WATOTO RADIO (watotoradio.info; the homepage frames the app at /spa/, whose text is served in this bundle) | 2026 |
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Programmes
No timetabled shows with airtimes. The named strands it publishes are the campaigns "Watoto Radio", "Watoto On Air", "Bana For A Green World" (French title "Les enfants pour un monde vert") and "Batoto Hange na Bichuma" (French title "Les enfants loin des ferrailles"), each with its own page.
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WATOTO RADIO (watotoradio.info; the homepage frames the app at /spa/, whose text is served in this bundle) | 2026 |
What we corrected
Each of these changed a field in our own entry. The reasoning is the researcher's own, recorded when the change was made.
| Field | Change | Why |
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| language code |
fr
what it said before was not recorded; the
reasoning usually states it
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French, checked against the station's own site rather than assumed from the country. The homepage wrapper at watotoradio.info declares lang="fr" and the whole of the application it frames is French: the mission statement "Amplifier les voix des enfants a travers les ondes de la RDC", the listen prompt "Ecoutez Watoto Radio en direct 24h/24", the programme strand descriptions, the team roles and the title of the downloadable editorial charter are all in French. One campaign carries a Swahili title, "Batoto Hange na Bichuma", beside its French name "Les enfants loin des ferrailles", and several of its partner stations have Swahili names, so Swahili is present in branding; but no page is published in Swahili and the station's own prose is French throughout, so fr is the single code the site supports. |
| language code
confirmed
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fr → fr | French, checked against the station's own site rather than assumed from the country. The homepage wrapper at watotoradio.info declares lang="fr" and the whole of the application it frames is French: the mission statement "Amplifier les voix des enfants a travers les ondes de la RDC", the listen prompt "Ecoutez Watoto Radio en direct 24h/24", the programme strand descriptions, the team roles and the title of the downloadable editorial charter are all in French. One campaign carries a Swahili title, "Batoto Hange na Bichuma", beside its French name "Les enfants loin des ferrailles", and several of its partner stations have Swahili names, so Swahili is present in branding; but no page is published in Swahili and the station's own prose is French throughout, so fr is the single code the site supports. || the field already held this value |
What we found and did not publish
Material that would have made this page fuller, and was refused. A page with five named presenters looks better than a page with none even when the five are a website theme's demonstration content, and the difference is invisible to a reader. So it is recorded here instead.
| What we could have said | Why we did not |
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| Names and job titles of five team members are published, but not matched to any on-air role | I did not turn staff titles into presenter credits; only Daniel Makasi's page says anything about broadcasting work.
source |
| The territory name "Kabeya Kamuanga" in the partner-station table | It reads like a person but it is a territoire in Kasai Oriental province, so it is not a presenter.
source |
| Homepage counters reading "500+" children trained and a second figure for programmes produced | Both numbers are hardcoded literals in the page source, not fed from anything, so I did not treat them as current measurements.
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| The contents of the downloadable "Charte Editoriale" PDF | I downloaded it from the site but every page is a rendered image with no extractable text, so I could not read its terms.
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| The site's own page title and social metadata | The wrapper page and the inner app still carry the unedited Lovable starter values "Lovable App" and "Lovable Generated Project", including a "TODO: Set the document title" comment, so none of that describes the station.
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| Daniel Makasi's documentary filmography and festival selections, including two titled films | Those belong to his personal page as a film-maker, not to the radio service's output.
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If you think something here is wrong
Tell us which fact and what you found instead. Everything above names its source and its date, so a disagreement can be settled by looking rather than argued. Where another site disagrees with us, it is usually because it is repeating a radio directory, and occasionally because we got it wrong. We would like to know which.
Read from the station's own material; this page is generated from the
catalogue as it stands now, so it changes when the research does. Research
current as at 2026.
This entry began as: Watoto Radio — listed via Radio Browser · https://watotoradio.info/