Football fans in Niger facing World Cup heartache 17/06/2010 |
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Football fans in the West African country of Niger are facing World Cup heartache with unions threatening a strike which could take the event off air.
Niger’s state television broadcaster is in dispute with communication workers unions by allowing private TV networks to freely retransmit their signal.
"We will never accept that the national television channel's signal can be freely retransmitted by private TV," said a letter to the communications minister from journalists' union Syntrapresse and information workers' union Sainfo.
The two groups are set to strike on Thursday and Friday over the issue and should enough workers join in the march, the television company will be unable to show the matches live.
"Here in Niger it will, more than anything else, disrupt the normal running of public bodies because football fans, whether they are directors or employees, will be glued to their television screens and will ignore their duties," said Garba Abdou, a civil servant in the capital Niamey.
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