Radio France Internationale, commonly known by its acronym RFI, is a French public radio station with an international reach.

With 40.1 million weekly listeners in Africa, it is one of the most listened-to international radio stations on the continent.

96 FM relay stations in Africa

Its website records 24.6 million visits per month.

www.rfi.fr/en/

Radio France Internationale, commonly known by its acronym RFI, is a French public international radio station established on January 6, 1975. It ranks among the most listened-to international radio stations in the world, alongside Deutsche Welle, the BBC World Service, Voice of America, Radio Netherlands Worldwide, and China Radio International. Since 2008, it has been a subsidiary of the France Médias Monde group.

RFI boasts a vast network of journalists renowned for their independence, comprising 480 staff members based at the Paris newsroom and 400 correspondents worldwide.

It broadcasts in French and 16 foreign languages ​​via digital terrestrial radio (DAB+), shortwave, medium wave, FM, cable, satellite, and the Internet. Its programs are also rebroadcast by over 1,700 partner radio stations around the globe. While the majority of content is broadcast in French, English, Spanish, and Hausa, programming is also available in Swahili, Fulfude, Portuguese, and Manding.

FM and shortwave broadcasting in the following countries:

Benin, Burkina Faso (shortwave), Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Comoros, Congo-Brazzaville, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali (shortwave), Mauritius, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger (shortwave), Nigeria,

Uganda, DRC, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Chad, Togo, Zambia.