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3 unusual facts about Radio France Internationale


Portuguese in Africa

BBC Para África, RFI and RTP África are all media outlets that make a point of presenting Portuguese as an African language aside from its origins in Europe.

Radio France Internationale

However, a report raising questions regarding the French secret services responsibilities in the 1995 death of judge Bernard Borrel in Djibouti, which was broadcast on May 17, 2005, was later removed from RFI's website for undisclosed reasons, possibly due to the intervention of Djiboutian President Ismail Omar Guelleh.

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.


CELSA Paris

CELSA's alumni work for highly regarded French media institutions, such as TF1, France 2, France 3, Canal Plus, France 24, Arte (TV); Le Monde, Le Figaro, Libération (print) or Radio France Internationale, RTL, Europe 1 (radio)...

Fair trade coffee

French author and RFI correspondent Jean-Pierre Boris championed this view in his 2005 book Commerce inéquitable.

Fair trade debate

French author and RFI correspondent Jean-Pierre Boris championed this view in his 2005 book Commerce inéquitable.


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