{"id":36164,"date":"2017-10-31T19:14:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T19:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/tv5-monde-celebrates-25-years-opens-rwanda-s\/"},"modified":"2017-11-03T10:26:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T10:26:00","slug":"tv5-monde-celebrates-25-years-opens-rwanda-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/tv5-monde-celebrates-25-years-opens-rwanda-s\/","title":{"rendered":"TV5 Monde celebrates 25 years, opens Rwanda\u2019s online channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ceremony which took place in Kigali was attended by Minister of Foreign Affairs and East African Community, Louise Mushikiwabo and TV5 Monde Managing Director, Yves Bigot among other officials.<\/p>\n<p>At the event, TV5 Monde unveiled a free \u2018phone application\u2019 that will help smartphone users in Africa to watch their news.<br \/>\nSpeaking at the event, Mushikiwabo hailed TV5 Monde for bringing the unveiling ceremony in Rwanda saying that Rwandans will benefit from it based on how ICT continues to be embraced in the country and the different opportunities presented therewith. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cOur country is investing in ICT and as a result internet is available in Kigali City and all secondary cities. TV5 Monde will be followed by many Rwandans as they use different languages. French language is taught in Rwandan schools. Through this platform Rwandans will be connected with fellow Africans,\u201d Mushikiwabo said. <\/p>\n<p>According to TV5 Monde\u2019s Bigot, celebrating the anniversary and launching the platform in Rwanda is pleasing saying that they chose Rwanda following Honourable Mushikiwabo\u2019s invitation last year, when they met in Francophone Summit in Antananarivo, Madagascar.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the invitation was a symbol of how Rwanda likes French language. Bigot said that the channel can be a tool of talks between government of Rwanda and France over Political matters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a culture-based channel, dialogues are the main tool to solve political issues, and we shall explore all possibilities to encourage dialogue,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>TV5 Afrique started to operate in Africa in 1992 and is the most subscribed channel in all TV5 Monde Channels.  <\/p>\n<p>TV5 Monde is sponsored by five states, France, Switzerland, Canada, Quebec and Federation Wallonie-Bruxelles and reaches 84 French speaking countries. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22399 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/tv5.jpg\" alt=\"TV5 Monde Managing Director, Yves Bigot speaks at the event\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22398 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mushikiwabo--_tv5_monde.jpg\" alt=\"Mushikiwabo speaks at the event\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22397 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mushikwabo_tv5.jpg\" alt=\"Mushikiwabo and TV5 Monde Managing Director, Yves Bigot charts in the event\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A global television network broadcasting several channels in French, TV5 Monde has celebrated 25-year-anniversary since it started operating in Africa and at an occasion where they launched an online platform that will broadcast the TV\u2019s Africa-related content.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36164"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36164"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}