{"id":3096,"date":"2022-05-02T10:14:14","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T09:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=3096"},"modified":"2022-05-02T10:14:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T09:14:14","slug":"francophone-africa-update-1-may-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=3096","title":{"rendered":"Francophone Africa Update 1 May 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mali&#8217;s military junta blocks UN investigation of alleged massacre in <strong>Mali<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/world\/article-malis-military-junta-blocks-un-investigation-of-alleged-massacre-by\/\">Globe and Mail<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What went wrong in <strong>Mali <\/strong>and the future of France&#8217;s presence in the country, by Niagal\u00e9 Bagayoko <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/it\/pubblicazione\/what-went-wrong-mali-future-frances-presence-sahel-34515\">ISPI online<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ali&#8217;s ECOWAS maintains sanctions against <strong>Mali<\/strong> and gives ultimatum to <strong>Guinea<\/strong> and <strong>Burkina Faso<\/strong>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/afrique\/article\/2022\/03\/26\/la-cedeao-maintient-ses-sanctions-envers-le-mali-et-adresse-un-ultimatum-a-la-guinee-et-au-burkina-faso_6119211_3212.html\">Le Monde<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/africa\/20220326-west-african-bloc-ecowas-maintains-mali-sanctions-over-delayed-elections\">France 24<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Le <strong>Sahel<\/strong> devient la 7e \u00ab province \u00bb de l\u2019\u00c9tat islamique en Afrique : Faut-il s\u2019en inqui\u00e9ter ? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dakaractu.com\/Le-Sahel-devient-la-7e-province-de-l-Etat-islamique-en-Afrique-Faut-il-s-en-inquieter_a216444.html\">Dakar Actu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Togo\u2019s Gilbert Houngbo becomes first African to head the International Labour Organization. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20220325-ex-togo-premier-houngbo-to-head-un-labour-agency\">France 24<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeuneafrique.com\/1333588\/economie\/avec-gilbert-houngbo-lafrique-prend-les-commandes-de-loit\/\">Jeune Afrique<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/afrique\/article\/2022\/03\/25\/le-togolais-gilbert-houngbo-devient-le-premier-africain-a-prendre-la-tete-de-l-oit_6119161_3212.html\">Le Monde<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.letemps.ch\/monde\/gilbert-houngbo-premier-africain-elu-directeur-general-lorganisation-internationale-travail\">Le Temps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>En <strong>Tunisie<\/strong>, un journaliste d\u00e9tenu pour avoir refus\u00e9 de d\u00e9voiler ses sources. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/afrique\/article\/2022\/03\/24\/en-tunisie-un-journaliste-detenu-pour-avoir-refuse-de-devoiler-ses-sources_6118931_3212.html\">Le Monde<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Coups, insurgency, and imperialism in <strong>Africa<\/strong>, by Amy Niang. <a href=\"https:\/\/roape.net\/2022\/03\/08\/coups-insurgency-and-imperialism-in-africa\/\">ROAPE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Narcotrafic au <strong>Sahel<\/strong>\u00a0: une r\u00e9volution \u00e0 bas bruit. <a href=\"https:\/\/afriquexxi.info\/article4930.html\">Afrique XXI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fake News ecosystems in West Africa: a series of national reports published by <a href=\"https:\/\/cddwestafrica.org\/\">CDD West Africa<\/a>. Individual links available on this <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jchitchen\/status\/1463884827929853958\">thread<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Transitioning nowhere: <strong>Burkina Faso<\/strong>\u2019s coup d\u2019\u00e9tat, by Bettina Engels. <a href=\"https:\/\/roape.net\/2022\/03\/29\/transitioning-nowhere-burkina-fasos-coup-detat\/\">ROAPE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bollor\u00e9<\/strong>, un empire fran\u00e7africain. Une s\u00e9rie de reportages sur <a href=\"https:\/\/afriquexxi.info\/article4916.html\">Afrique XXI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Music: Griots, rappers and composers redefine opera in <strong>Burkina Faso<\/strong>. <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/africa\/2145399\/a-japanese-african-collaboration-redefines-opera-in-burkina-faso\/\">Quartz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mali&#8217;s military junta blocks UN investigation of alleged massacre in Mali Globe and Mail What went wrong in Mali and the future of France&#8217;s presence in the country, by Niagal\u00e9 Bagayoko ISPI online ali&#8217;s ECOWAS maintains sanctions against Mali and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=3096\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3097,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions\/3097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}