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MTA4 Africa is the African channel of MTA - Muslim Television Ahmadiyya International, the satellite network of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and the world's first Islamic television channel to broadcast globally. Launched on 1 August 2016 as MTA Africa, it carries the network's programming to sub-Saharan Africa in English, French and Swahili alongside African-language output, and its channel also streams live online.

For a network born in 1994 from a Friday sermon carried over a telephone line, Africa was both a natural audience and a new frontier: a continent where the community's presence was growing and where its message had never had a channel of its own.

African Languages, One Channel

MTA4 Africa's linguistic map is its identity: English and French for the continent's two colonial-era lingua francas, Swahili for East Africa's Swahili-speaking millions, and additional African languages for the community's local audiences - a multilingual schedule serving sub-Saharan viewers in the languages they actually speak. Around the language programming runs the network's core: the Friday Sermon of the caliph, community and youth programs, religious teaching and the news and current affairs that connect Africa's Ahmadi communities to the global network - MTA1's programming woven through the African output.

The 2016 Launch

MTA Africa 1 and 2 were inaugurated on 1 August 2016 by Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the community's caliph, in the same wave of expansion that gave the network its regional structure. The channel broadcasts on the Astra 2F satellite across the region - and, in one of broadcasting's odder footnotes, is also carried on terrestrial television in Belize, Central America's connection to the African service. In September 2024, MTA Africa became a member of the African Union of Broadcasting, joining the continent's broadcasting establishment alongside its satellite presence.

The Network Behind the Channel

The Africa channel operates as one of MTA's regional services - the network that began with three hours of morning broadcasts in 1994 now runs ten 24-hour channels, funded entirely by community donations and carrying no advertising, from its base at Islamabad, Tilford in the United Kingdom. For African viewers, the channel is the local face of that operation: the same sermons, the same community programming and the same global network, in the languages of their own continent - streaming live, around the clock, to whatever screen they hold.

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