Journalist Fausséni Dembélé, known as “Al Séni Dembelé” has been the current Managing Director since his appointment in February 2019.

Born from the will of the President of the Republic Félix Houphouët-Boigny (1960-1993), who wanted to make it an instrument of development at the service of the populations, the RTI originally broadcast only 5 h 30 min of weekly radio programs .

The effort to cover the territory, undertaken seven years earlier, materialized with the opening of a television news antenna in 1973 in Bouaké, in the center of the country, which was transformed into a regional station in 1980.

[2] RFI has begun a push for total radio and television coverage of the nation prior to the 2008 general elections, and has a 9 billion (us) CFA Franc program to rebuild broadcast facilities.

[4] Much of the population in the northern rebel regions see the RTI news programs as culpable in the propaganda push of the national government.