{"id":2982,"date":"2021-11-15T11:06:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T11:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2982"},"modified":"2021-11-15T11:06:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T11:06:42","slug":"francophone-africa-update-15-november-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2982","title":{"rendered":"Francophone Africa update: 15 November 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tensions between <strong>Morocco<\/strong> and <strong>Algeria<\/strong> over <strong>Western Sahara<\/strong>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theafricareport.com\/144172\/algeria-morocco-the-sahara-is-not-up-for-negotiation-says-mohammed-vi\/?utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=post_articles_twitter_08_11_2021&amp;utm_medium=social\">The Africa Report<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/fr\/afrique\/20211115-le-conflit-oubli%C3%A9-du-sahara-occidental\">RFI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Togo<\/strong>\u2019s Covid-21 digital stimulus programme offers an innovative solution. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2021-11-08\/how-togo-made-all-digital-government-stimulus-system-in-two-weeks\">Bloomberg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/togo-novissi-un-programme-de-revenu-universel-de-solidarite-et-un-modele-pour-lafrique-140834\">The Conversation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Burkina Faso<\/strong>: at least 20 killed in an attack in Soum province. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/fr\/afrique\/20211115-burkina-faso-au-moins-20-morts-dans-une-attaque-dans-le-soum\">RFI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thousands rally in <strong>DRC<\/strong> capital against electoral commission pick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/11\/13\/thousands-protest-in-dr-congo-against-poll-body-pick\">AlJazeera<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Poverty, hunger, and deforestation: the dire consequences of climate change in <strong>Madagascar<\/strong>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2021\/11\/15\/madagascar-s-habitat-at-risk-due-to-climate-change\/\">Africa News<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/nov\/11\/madagascar-climate-crisis-drought-no-harvest-only-hunger\">The Guardian<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/poverty-fuelled-by-climate-change-is-driving-deforestation-and-poaching-putting-madagascars-endemic-wildlife-at-risk-12466798\">Sky News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Le Monde analyses jihadist groups\u2019 videos to understand their methods in the <strong>Sahel<\/strong>. \u201cSahel\u00a0: ce que les vid\u00e9os de djihadistes r\u00e9v\u00e8lent de leurs armes et de leurs m\u00e9thodes&#8221;. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/afrique\/video\/2021\/11\/14\/sahel-ce-que-les-videos-de-djihadistes-revelent-de-leurs-armes-et-de-leurs-methodes_6101993_3212.html\">Le Monde<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Diplomatic tensions continue between <strong>Mali<\/strong> and France. Political analysis by Boubacar Haidara on <a href=\"https:\/\/afriquexxi.info\/article4878.html\">Afrique XXI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Documentary<\/strong>: \u201cRestituer? L\u2019Afrique en qu\u00eate de ses chefs-d\u2019\u0153uvre&#8221; by Nora Philippe. This film addresses how African art pieces ended up in European museums and contributes to current debates about their restitutions to their countries of origin. To stream for free on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/fr\/videos\/097591-000-A\/restituer\/\">Arte.tv<\/a> by 26\/04\/2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tensions between Morocco and Algeria over Western Sahara. The Africa Report RFI Togo\u2019s Covid-21 digital stimulus programme offers an innovative solution. Bloomberg The Conversation Burkina Faso: at least 20 killed in an attack in Soum province. RFI Thousands rally in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2982\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"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":[29,414,589,312,72,412,642,941],"class_list":["post-2982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-art","tag-burkina-faso","tag-drc","tag-madagascar","tag-mali","tag-sahel","tag-togo","tag-western-sahara"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2983,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982\/revisions\/2983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}