{"id":3485,"date":"2026-08-31T16:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T15:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=3485"},"modified":"2026-08-30T17:25:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T16:25:38","slug":"update-31-august-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=3485","title":{"rendered":"Update 31 August 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Junta-led Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger begin exit from the International Criminal \u200bCourt, deepening break with Western institutions, <a href=\"https:\/\/africa.businessinsider.com\/local\/lifestyle\/burkina-faso-mali-and-niger-begin-exit-from-the-international-criminal-court-icc\/8swpmw4\">Business Insider Africa<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"page-hero-header-title aos-init aos-animate\" data-aos=\"fade-right\" data-aos-duration=\"2000\">Niger criminalises same-sex intimacy for the first time in its history, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humandignitytrust.org\/news\/niger-criminalises-same-sex-intimacy-for-the-first-time-in-its-history\/\">Human Dignity Trust<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Tale of Two Handshakes and Macron\u2019s Global Legacy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldpoliticsreview.com\/a-tale-of-two-handshakes-and-macrons-global-legacy\/\">WPR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chad&#8217;s Quiet Return to French Military Support, <a href=\"https:\/\/issafrica.org\/iss-today\/chad-s-quiet-return-to-french-military-support\">ISS<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"title-row\" class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\">\n<div id=\"title\" class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\">\n<p class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\">Guin\u00e9e : Un durcissement du r\u00e9gime?, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rbKY98lmj4Q\">TV5 Monde<\/a><\/p>\n<p>IMF in Senegal: The 3 key issues to break the hidden-debt deadlock, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theafricareport.com\/428245\/imf-in-senegal-the-3-key-issues-to-break-the-hidden-debt-deadlock\/\">Africa Report<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\">Africa-France. Do you speak french army?, <a href=\"https:\/\/afriquexxi.info\/Africa-France-Do-you-speak-french-army\">Afrique XXI<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Junta-led Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger begin exit from the International Criminal \u200bCourt, deepening break with Western institutions, Business Insider Africa Niger criminalises same-sex intimacy for the first time in its history, Human Dignity Trust A Tale of Two Handshakes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=3485\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485","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=3485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3487,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions\/3487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}