Radio France Internationale
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RFI operates under the auspices and primary budget of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs. It broadcasts in various languages, including English, Polish, Portuguese, Russian,Chinese and Spanish.
RFI's English service broadcasts for five and a half hours a day. Its website's music section has an outstanding collection of biographies in both the French and English languages.
On September 17, 2002, former president of Togo Gnassingbé Eyadéma tried to stop the broadcasting of an interview of one of his prime opponents, Messan Agbéyomé Kodjo, by phoning directly to the Elysée Palace. The interview was not censored by Jean-Paul Cluzel, RFI's CEO at the time, due to the coordinated intervention of the journalists' trade-unions. However, a reporting lifting questions on the French secret services responsibilities in the 1995 death of judge [Bernard Borrel] in Djibouti, that had been broadcasted on May 17, 2005, was afterward taken out of RFI's website for unrevealed reasons, maybe due to the intervention of Djibouti's president Ismail Omar Guelleh (also available in Farsi [here]) .
Services
Radio France Internationale broadcasts mainly in French, but also offers a number of foreign language services. One of the largest foreign language serivices is the English Service, aimed mainly at Southern Africa and Kenya, but with programmes for the Middle East and South Asia as well. RFI broadcasts morning news, lunchtime, afternoon and early evening programmes: 0400 to 0430 UTC RFI News and Sport 0500 to 0530 UTC RFI News and Sport 0600 to 0630 UTC RFI News and Sport 0700 to 0730 UTC RFI News and Sport 0730 to 0800 UTC English language features programming 1200 to 1210 UTC RFI News 1210 to 1230 UTC English language features programming 1400 to 1430 UTC RFI News and Sport 1430 to 1500 UTC English language features programming 1600 to 1630 UTC RFI News and Sport 1630 to 1700 UTC English language features programming 1700 to 1730 UTC RFI News & African features All of RFI's English broadcasts are available to listen online and for download on the english service web page at rfi.fr.References
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