RFI Kiswahili

RFI Kiswahili is deep in Uganda's listing, at 35 of 38. Down here the ordering barely orders anything: the difference between one position and the next is often a single recorded open, so treat the neighbours below as a shelf rather than as a ranking.

The country page counts rock among its commonest tags, and this station is one of the 6 entries in Uganda behind that count. Worldwide the tag leads 148 stations, which makes the rail below a very wide shelf.

RFI Kiswahili streams at 64 kbps against Uganda's median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 63% of stations reach 128 kbps, a rate this low stands out, and it usually means either a speech station that never needed more or an encoder that has not been touched in years.

The stream is served from rfienswahili64k.ice.infomaniak.ch, which no other entry in Uganda uses in this snapshot. Nothing else in the listing shares its fate: if this address stops answering it is this broadcaster's own outage, and if it plays, it plays.

The station's site is at rfienswahili64k.ice.infomaniak.ch, which sits under the .ch country domain rather than Uganda's. That mismatch is usually mundane, a host or a parent organisation registered elsewhere, and it is the kind of small inconsistency worth seeing rather than smoothing over.