France 24 is an international news and current affairs television channel. It started broadcasting on 6 December 2006. It is similar to BBC World News and CNN. It broadcasts through satellite and cable operators throughout the world. During 2010 the channel started broadcasting through its own IPhone application.
The channel broadcasts principally world news. Currently, the news is given in English and Arabic in addition to French. This channel currently represents a real popular culture topic for people all around the globe, and especially for the little community of Ivorian (from Ivory Coast or Cote d'Ivoire) living in the USA. Why Am I saying that? The reason is because France 24 is one of the popular ways to have information about the current political turmoil going on in Ivory Coast at the moment.
France 24 gives us accurate and updated information on the crisis, videos and breaking news directly through their application on IPod. The Ivorian first TV channel, RTI, by deciding to become favorible to only one presidential candidate, makes it very difficult for people to have accurate and true information about the country. France 24, and other international TV channels and radio, which were received in Ivory Coast, have then been ordered to stop broadcasting any news about the country.
This is how the desire and the necessity to have news about families, friends and about our country make the channel France 24 very popular among people outside Ivory Coast, and even inside, due to the fact that they can access information through the Internet
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