Radio Monte Carlo-Middle East, a subsidiary of Radio France Internationale, broadcasting to the Arab world, now has an FM frequency (93.5) in Baghdad. The station has previously broadcast to Iraq only on medium wave.
The Arabic-language French radio, based in Paris and part of the RFI state-owned group, has an editorial team of 35 journalists and 40 correspondents around the world and says it has 15m listeners in the Arab world and in the Arab-speaking communities of the diaspora.