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Radio France Internationale had 59.5 million listeners in 2022, making it one of the most-listened-to international radio stations in the world. In 2020, the audience was 58.1 million, a 25 percent rise over the previous year.
RFI broadcasts in French and 16 other languages, including English, Spanish, Portuguese, Hausa, Swahili, Romanian, Russian, Persian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Manding, which was added in 2015.
RFI was created in 1975 as part of Radio France by the French government. The French Parliament changed the law in 1986 to allow RFI to operate independently of Radio France.
Jean Helene was killed in Abidjan on the 21st of October 2003 by police sergeant Theodore Sery Dago while covering the civil war in Ivory Coast. Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon were murdered on the 2nd of November 2013 while covering the Mali elections; the United Nations uses their death date to mark the International Day of Impunity.
Africa is RFI's largest audience base. In 2020, nearly 29.8 million of its 58.1 million listeners were in French-speaking Africa, with another 11 million in the rest of the continent. Africa represented 60 percent of the total audience in 2010.
The government of Niger suspended RFI and France 24 following the 2023 Nigerien coup d'etat, cutting off two of the most widely heard French-language broadcasters in the region.