[2][3] RTD operates a powerful medium wave transmitter that broadcasts the Arabic-language US-governmental program Radio Sawa for all of East Africa.

[4] In April 1967, Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF) set up a regional overseas television station in Djibouti City, broadcasting on a 50Kw transmitter on channel 5.

[5] This station, without any production infrastructure, was designed for the rebroadcast of programs from French radio and television channels, produced in France.

It was in 1983, with the help of West German cooperation, that a broadcasting transmission center was set up in Doraleh, near city of Djibouti.

To remedy this situation, the Japanese government financed a project to extend a production center with high-performance equipment.