{"id":1050,"date":"2025-12-06T04:52:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T04:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2025-12-06T04:52:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T04:52:50","slug":"rwandas-francempundu-in-secretstory-africa-final-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/06\/rwandas-francempundu-in-secretstory-africa-final-eight\/entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda\u2019s FranceMpundu in SecretStory Africa final eight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" src=\"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/France-Mpundu.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1051\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.503818288623458;width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/France-Mpundu.jpg 600w, https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/France-Mpundu-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Rwandan musician France Mpundu has advanced to the quarter finals of Secret Story Africa after surviving a tense elimination round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was among four contestants at risk but secured her place through overwhelming online support from Rwandan fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>France will continue in the competition alongside Sarah from C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, while Ouaidou from Chad and Jos\u00e9e from Benin were eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The show, airing on Canal+ Magic, now has eight remaining contestants. The latest eviction episode was emotional, with both eliminated and remaining housemates visibly affected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>France, already a recognized figure in Rwanda\u2019s music industry, is the first Rwandan to participate in the Secret Story Africa show, which awards the winner approximately 50 million Rwandan francs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwandan musician France Mpundu has advanced to the quarter finals of Secret Story Africa after surviving a tense elimination round. She was among four contestants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1052,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions\/1052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}