The Voice of America will continue broadcasting next week

The American “Avicts for RSF and VoA received an email today from the Justice Department informing them that the teams of this American media icon will be able to resume work in the coming hours”, RSF said in a statement.

In a message to RSF lawyers, the ministry declared that the accounts of 1,406 employees as well as U contractors SAGM, a federal agency that monitors some American media, and VoA, had been reactivated during the day. It adds that now all employees must have access to the system, Kosovas Prees reports.

U n SAGM expects the programme to be returned next week. In mid-March, the Trump administration left journalists on leave and began firing reporters from the Voice of America and several other public media.

However, the American judicial system rejected these measures. In late March, a federal judge in New York initially suspended the decision to suspend the activities of these public media, followed by a federal judge in Washington in April.

We welcome this progress, but the unpredictable approach of the Trump administration requires caution. It is now necessary to ensure guarantees concerning the sustainability of funding provided by the US Congress for all USAGM media,” said RSF Director General Thibaut Brutti.

The Voice of America, founded during World War II, Radio Free Europe formed during the Cold War, and Radio Free Asia founded in 1996, aim to transmit America's “>> ” worldwide, especially to countries with authoritarian governments.

In March, Trump signed an executive order classifying government agency U SAGM, which had 3,384 employees in 2023, as a useless “element of the US federal bureaucracy”.