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In Bamako, the varied individuals met in regards to the kidnapping of the journalist Olivier Dubois who swings between hope and anxiousness. One month after his disappearance, the video the place he seems and the place he proclaims that he has been chosen by the help group for Islam and Muslims is seen as proof of the lives of his colleagues within the Malian press. A press that questions its skill to…

It has grow to be essentially the most controversial challenge in Mauritius immediately. The Authority for Web Actions, ICTA, desires to introduce a system for intercepting exchanges on social networks, the aim is to censor messages which might be dangerous to society and people. However the potential abuse of such management intrigues all social actors.…

In a video revealed on Wednesday, Could 5 on social networks, the French journalist Olivier Dubois claims to be the hostage of the jihadists from the Assist Group for Islam and Muslims. How did he find yourself there? Who's his catcher? How did the kidnapping happen? RFI appears to be like again on the final moments earlier than the kidnapping.…

A Frenchman is at the moment being held hostage in Mali. The impartial journalist Olivier Dubois had not given any information in three weeks. He appeared on Tuesday, Could 4, on a video circulating on social networks confirming his kidnapping of JNIM, the "Islamist and Muslim group" in Arabic. On this 21-second video, which…

Within the Democratic Republic of Congo, no less than 14 journalists have obtained direct or oblique threats for skilled causes for the reason that starting of the 12 months, stories NGO Journaliste en hazard (JED). The group additionally recorded no less than 9 instances of journalists being attacked or tortured within the train of their career. JED sees a "worrying rise" in assaults on journalists and…

In Senegal, a sit-in of journalists, technicians and media executives was held on Monday, Could 3, in Dakar in entrance of the Ministry of Tradition and Communications. as reported from Dakar, Charlotte idracIn reference to the Worldwide Press Freedom Day, professionals within the sector warned of the assaults and unsurpassed…

Monday, Could 3, was World Press Freedom Day. On this event, an illustration was held within the 2nd arrondissement of Paris at the positioning Ghislaine Dupont - Claude Verlon - Camille Lepage. Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon, RFI journalists, had been killed in November 2013 in northern Mali. Photojournalist Camille Lepage was killed within the Central African Republic in 2014. A rally organized…

The founding father of the newspaper Jeune Afrique, Béchir Ben Yahmed, has handed away. He died on Monday morning, Might 3, in Paris on the age of 93. He had been in hospital because the finish of March, after receiving Covid-19. Franco-Tunisian Béchir Ben Yahmed had based the journal, which was to grow to be "YES" in 1960, the yr of many African independence.…

This is very the case in North Africa. In Algeria and Morocco, press freedom continues to be hampered, whereas in Libya it is amazingly troublesome to follow the occupation. Convictions of journalists, blockages of on-line media, adoption of legal guidelines to prohibit freedom of knowledge ... Algeria is within the eyes of…

The operate of the worldwide group La Francophonies at the guts of an investigation into the French every day liberation. In an article revealed on Tuesday, April 27, the French newspaper exhibits the group that goals to advertise the French language worldwide. Vertical management, extreme spending, opaque monetary administration ... After a final turbulent time period following comparable accusations,…