Featured image (Thomas with French Embassy staff on Bastille Day. Press officer Dian Diack Diakite; Deputy Head of Mission Sébastien Jondot; and HE Madam Isabelle Le Guellec on Bastille Day in Liberia).
Go Team Liberia received an invitation from the French Embassy in Liberia to celebrate Bastille Day, a French national holiday on Friday July 14.
GTL’s technical coordinator Tunde Thomas, who also works for United Bank for Africa, attended the event which marks the start of the French Revolution in 1789. On this date in history, revolutionaries stormed the Bastille prison. They released seven prisoners and the French Revolution began.
Her Excellency Madam Isabelle Le Guellec extended the invitation to GTL knowing that the organization is traveling to Paris to cover the Olympic Games from July 26 to August 10.
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Thomas expressed her sincere appreciation for the invitation. “It was a very great experience,” She told GTL. “I was privileged to have seen the foreign minister and ambassador, and other dignitaries.”
GTL looks forward to covering the Olympic team in Paris and sharing all that the city has to offer Liberians. See the pictures below to view GTL at the Bastille Day event. Thomas was able to pose with dignitaries from the French Embassy and the Liberia Minister of Foreign Affairs H.E. Madame Sara Beysolow Nyanti.
