{"id":2486,"date":"2020-01-16T17:17:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T17:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2486"},"modified":"2020-01-16T17:19:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T17:19:01","slug":"weekly-update-on-francophone-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2486","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Update on Francophone Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"crayon article-titre-61210 h1\">Le Monde: Pour tout l\u2019or du Sahel<\/h1>\n<p>\u00c9quip\u00e9s \u00e0 peu de frais, des milliers d\u2019hommes creusent le Sahara \u00e0 la recherche d\u2019or depuis la d\u00e9couverte de filons au Soudan, au Tchad, au Niger\u2026 Aussi r\u00e9cente que rapide, cette ru\u00e9e a pris de court les \u00c9tats du Sahel, d\u00e9j\u00e0 d\u00e9stabilis\u00e9s par les mouvements djihadistes et les trafics en tout genre, notamment de drogue. Si l\u2019orpaillage artisanal peut se r\u00e9v\u00e9ler rapidement lucratif, il constitue aussi une activit\u00e9 dangereuse et pr\u00e9caire.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monde-diplomatique.fr\/2020\/01\/CARAYOL\/61210\">Le Monde<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h1>Mail&amp;Guardian: The last French speakers in Lagos<\/h1>\n<p>Every morning, without fail, Sunday Ajongun kneels down and says a prayer together with his wife and two young children. The prayers are said in a medley of languages. Unusually in Africa\u2019s most populous Anglophone nation, English is not one of them. Ajongun and his family are among a tiny community of French speakers living and working in the heart of Lagos. They trace their roots to the nearby border with Benin \u2014 which was colonised by France \u2014 and French remains an important part of their linguistic identity, together with Egun and Yoruba. Ajongun speaks French with his children, and they attend one of the city\u2019s few French-medium schools.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2020-01-10-00-the-last-french-speakers-in-lagos\/\">Mail&amp;Guardian<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h1>Burkina24: G5 Sahel: Il y aura un autre sommet \u00e0 \u2026 P\u00f4 au Burkina!<\/h1>\n<p>Pendant que les dirigeants des pays du G5 Sahel se rendront \u00e0 Pau en France pour un sommet avec le Chef d\u2019Etat fran\u00e7ais Emmanuel Macron, un autre sommet se tiendra \u00e0 P\u00f4, au Burkina, sur le sol africain. Les cinq Chefs d\u2019Etat du G5 Sahel\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.burkina24.com\/2020\/01\/12\/burkina-le-president-roch-kabore-se-rend-a-pau\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">se rendent en principe ce 13 janvier 2020 \u00e0 Pau en France<\/a>\u00a0pour un sommet dont le menu principal devrait \u00eatre la pr\u00e9sence des forces fran\u00e7aises sur le sol sah\u00e9lien. La question de ce qui est qualifi\u00e9 de \u201csentiment anti-fran\u00e7ais\u201d et qui anime nombre de citoyens africains serait \u00e9galement abord\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.burkina24.com\/2020\/01\/12\/pau-france-sommet-macrong5-sahel-il-y-aura-un-autre-sommet-a-po-au-burkina\">Burkina24<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h1>Le Monde: Au Mali, le sentiment antifran\u00e7ais gagne du terrain<\/h1>\n<p>Les manifestations r\u00e9clamant le d\u00e9part des forces \u00e9trang\u00e8res se sont multipli\u00e9es ces derniers mois. Certains y voient le r\u00e9sultat d\u2019une manipulation. L\u2019hymne malien r\u00e9sonne sur la place de l\u2019ind\u00e9pendance de Bamako, la capitale. La main droite sur le c\u0153ur, un homme brandit une pancarte proclamant \u00ab\u00a0A bas la France\u00a0\u00bb. Vendredi 10\u00a0janvier, le drapeau fran\u00e7ais br\u00fble sous les cris de pr\u00e8s de 1\u00a0000 personnes rassembl\u00e9es \u00e0 l\u2019appel d\u2019organisations de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 civile et de personnalit\u00e9s politiques pour demander le d\u00e9part de l\u2019op\u00e9ration \u00ab\u00a0Barkhane\u00a0\u00bb et des forces internationales de leur pays. Des manifestations qui se multiplient depuis quelques mois.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/afrique\/article\/2020\/01\/10\/au-mali-le-sentiment-anti-francais-gagne-du-terrain_6025466_3212.html\">Le Monde<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le Monde: Pour tout l\u2019or du Sahel \u00c9quip\u00e9s \u00e0 peu de frais, des milliers d\u2019hommes creusent le Sahara \u00e0 la recherche d\u2019or depuis la d\u00e9couverte de filons au Soudan, au Tchad, au Niger\u2026 Aussi r\u00e9cente que rapide, cette ru\u00e9e a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2486\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[414,894,72,412],"class_list":["post-2486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-burkina-faso","tag-lagos","tag-mali","tag-sahel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2488,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions\/2488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}