France 24 Arabic

France 24 Arabic is the Arabic-language service of France 24, the international news channel of France. The stream carries the audio of the channel, with news bulletins, reports from correspondents in the Middle East, North Africa and around the world, interviews, debates, business and sport updates and analysis of international affairs presented in Modern Standard Arabic. The channel started its Arabic service in 2007 and is aimed at audiences across the Arab world and among Arabic speakers abroad.

As a public international broadcaster financed mainly through public funds, it presents itself as a source of news with a French view on world events, and listeners who want a broad picture may wish to compare it with other outlets. The audio feed is useful for people who want to follow the news while working, driving or travelling, or who have limited bandwidth, and for students of Modern Standard Arabic who want to practise comprehension of news language. The listing describes the feed as AAC with H.264 video at a bitrate of about 1,095 kbps, which suggests that this is the full television stream, so data use can be high. It plays in your browser on RadioKite, and you can add it to your favourites.