Facebook to launch Kinyarwanda version at Transform Africa Summit
"The whole Facebook interface will be changed into Kinyarwanda," Didier Nkurikiyimfura, Director General of ICT in the ministry of Youth and ICT told News of Rwanda.
By Monday afternoon, Rwandans could be clicking on Facebooks' Kinyarwanda icons to access social media services. "The new Kinyarwanda version will be applicable immediately after the launch during the summit," Nkurikiyimfura told News of Rwanda.
If added, Kinyarwanda will become Facebook's 10th language added to its Africa and Middle East languages used on the social media platform.
Founded on 4 February 2004 by An American IT entrepreneur, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook uses 95 languages across Africa and Middle East, Americas, Asia-Pacific; Eastern Europe as well as Western Europe.
The social media platform enjoys millions of subscribers, with tens of thousands of multinational companies using it as a sources of information and advertisement.
Source: allAfrica
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