[HCDX] France's RFI radio launches Hausa service in Nigeria

["Zacharias Liangas " <greekdx@xxxxxxxxx>]

France's RFI radio launches Hausa service in Nigeria
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hdao-Zp-r5KbGgiVIUxARnSEhxkQ
22 hours ago

LAGOS (AFP) - The public Radio France Internationale has launched in 
Nigeria this weekend a news service in Hausa, the official language of 
northern Nigeria that is widely spoken in other parts of West Africa.

Financed by RFI and with collaboration from the international Voice of 
Nigeria, the Hausa programs will be broadcast two hours daily -- the same 
amount of time as British rival, BBC, broadcasts in the same language.

"It's the first time in the history of the international French radio that the 
editorial staff is completely relocated overseas," said Jean Claude Kuentz, 
RFI's deputy general development director, speaking of the launch which 
took place Saturday.

Five journalists and three technicians will make up the radio's Hausa team, 
which Kuentz said has triggered interest by Tanzania's radio and television 
broadcasting service for a similar collaboration in Swahili.

The Hausa service will allow the station to offer "the diversity of French 
opinions and not just the official position of France" worldwide, France's 
ambassador to Nigeria Yves Gaudeul said.

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