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BBC News
01-07-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Algeria sentences French sports journalist sentenced to seven years' imprisonment
French journalists' unions on Tuesday called on Algeria to release a French football writer who has been jailed for seven years for supporting Gleizes, who is 36, was sentenced on Sunday, after being found guilty of holding exchanges with a proponent of self-determination for Algeria's Kabyle journalist, who specialises in African football for the Paris-based So Foot magazine, travelled to Algeria in May 2024 for an article on the well-known club JSK (Jeunesse Sportive de Kabylie) based in Tizi Ouzou, some 100km (62 miles) from the capital Algiers. He was detained a few days later in Tizi Ouzou and for the last 13 months has been under a form of limited freedom, unable to leave the country and obliged to report regularly to advice from French diplomats, his family and fellow journalists kept his plight under wraps pending the result of the trial."The imprisonment of a journalist for carrying out his profession is a red line that must never be crossed. Christophe Gleizes must be given back his freedom, his family and his writing," journalists' representatives from around 40 different French media said in a statement."Nothing can justify the ordeal that Christophe is going through now," his family said. "In all his writing he showed a passionate interest in the lives of African footballers. Is this his reward?"Gleizes's case recalls that of French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, who has been in jail since being arrested at Algiers airport in November last Tuesday an appeals court in Algiers confirmed the five-year prison sentence handed down in March, after Sansal's conviction for breaking state security writer, who is 80 and suffers from cancer, was found to have "threatened national unity" in an interview he gave to a rightwing French website in which he questioned the official Algerian account of its pre-independence the appeals court sentence, French prime minister Francois Bayrou expressed the hope that President Abdelmadjid Tebboune would use the occasion of Algeria's 63rd independence anniversary on Saturday to grant a pardon to the Gleizes case, the foreign ministry in Paris said Tuesday it "regretted the heavy sentence" imposed on the journalist, but fell short of calling for his between the two countries have been on a knife-edge for the last year, since President Emmanuel Macron appeared to shift France's position on north Africa towards greater support for Algeria's historic rival then there has been a series of diplomatic rows, with tit-for-tat expulsions and a breakdown of cooperation over extradition and of Sansal say he is in effect a hostage, and is being used by the Algerian government to put pressure on says he was convicted following due process of the employer Franck Annese, founder of So Press media group, described him as a "super guy, enthusiastic, willing, and full of humour.""He has absolutely no political axe to grind. His interviews and articles prove it."According to Mr Annese, Gleizes "fell in love" with African football when he investigated the death in 2014 of Albert Ebossé, a Cameroonian forward who died after being struck on the head by a projectile while playing for led to his co-authoring a book – Magic System: Modern Slavery of African footballers – which strongly criticised the agents who "exploit the confidence and dreams of these young players."According to the campaigning group Reporters without Borders (RSF), in researching his article on JSK Gleizes had contacted an exiled Kabyle opposition figure who was once an influential figure at the football person is now leader of the Movement for Self-Determination of Kabylia (MAK), RSF 2021 MAK was proscribed as terrorist by the Algerian government. Gleizes's supporters contend that two of the journalist's three exchanges with the opposition figure took place before the MAK was banned; and that all the exchanges concerned football, not politics.
Zawya
25-06-2025
- Health
- Zawya
Strengthening Communication for Better Food Safety in Senegal
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with the Association of Journalists in Health, Population and Development (AJSPD), organized a five‑day capacity‑building workshop in Thiès (June 16–20, 2025) to train Senegalese media professionals on food safety issues. The training aimed to deepen their understanding of the key challenges, legal frameworks, technical tools, and best practices related to food safety. In her opening remarks, Mrs Bintia Stephen‑Tchicaya, FAO's Acting Sub‑Regional Coordinator for West Africa, complimented AJSPD for its outstanding work in health and development journalism. 'You are essential actors in building a culture of prevention and responsibility around food safety. Through your investigations, reports, and columns, you can shift mindsets, influence behaviors, and hold decision makers to account. We count on your renewed commitment to consistently include food safety in your reporting,' she said. Food safety remains a major challenge across Africa. According to a 2015 WHO estimation, more than 91 million people in Africa fall ill annually from foodborne illnesses, resulting in around 137 000 deaths. These alarming figures highlight the urgent need to raise public awareness and influence policymakers, professionals, and consumers alike. Professor Amadou Diop, Chair of the National Codex Committee in Senegal, reminded participants that the Codex Alimentarius - fully endorsed by Senegal - sets rigorous, science‑based international food safety standards. 'These standards only have impact,' he said, 'if they are understood, communicated, and applied - especially by media professionals. Journalists are not only messengers but educators, preventers, and mobilizers who can translate complex scientific data into accessible, actionable messages.' The workshop featured theoretical lectures, panel discussions, case studies, and practical field work. Journalists visited Thiès's main transport hub to assess street food safety issues firsthand. Captain Armand Seck of the Thiès hygiene brigade reported numerous violations: cramped stalls, poor ventilation, inadequate lighting, and makeshift food stands under tarpaulins. Recognizing the lack of formal training among journalists on food safety, the program covered legal frameworks, international standards like Codex, microbiological, physical, and chemical hazards, surveillance systems, and safe handling practices for food preparation and sale. Participants proposed several recommendations to improve communication, awareness, and advocacy: fostering stronger collaboration between media, health authorities, and partners; organizing regular specialized training; publicizing safe food-handling practices; educating policymakers including parliamentarians; and creating regional professional networks. This workshop marks an important milestone in promoting quality information on food safety to benefit consumers in Senegal and across West Africa. It is part of the project 'Strengthening capacity to respond to food safety emergencies and improving street food quality in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Senegal,' funded by the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, with the goal of enhancing emergency response to food safety threats and improving street food hygiene standards in West Africa. Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO): Regional Office for Africa.
Times
24-06-2025
- Politics
- Times
Female news anchors ‘forced off TV' because partners are politicians
Barely a week after she was appointed, a French television news star has been caught up in a row over a potential conflict of interest as her domestic partner prepares to run for the presidency. Léa Salamé, 45, a sharp interviewer who was the surprise appointment as host of the main evening news on France 2 television, has come under pressure after Raphaël Glucksmann, a rising centre-left politician, made clear that he aims to join the field for the 2027 election. The daughter of a former Lebanese cabinet minister and an Armenian mother, Salamé has said she would reluctantly bow to the same pressure that has forced four other top female television news presenters with senior political partners to step aside in recent years if Glucksmann does decide to run. Salamé suspended her television interviewing and radio news presenting work last year, when Glucksmann, 45, the father of her son, led a Socialist party alliance to relative success in last June's European elections. Like many supporters, however, Salamé said the French understood that her impartiality would not be in question. 'From Emmanuel Macron to Marine Le Pen … I have never felt that in their eyes they were taking me for 'the wife of…',' she said. 'Times have changed and the French, including politicians, are much more feminist than people think.' Media ethics and the relationships between male politicians and top female broadcasters has been a sensitive issue since 1992 when President Mitterrand, a Socialist, gave his traditional Bastille Day interview. His two interrogators were television stars married to senior cabinet ministers — Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Bernard Kouchner. Some critics said France 2, the equivalent of BBC 1, had risked damaging the integrity of the public broadcaster in crowning Salamé as 'Queen of the 8PM', as the host of the daily hour-long Journal Télevisé, or JT, is known. On the other side, a columnist in Libération, the left-wing newspaper, said that forcing women journalists off screen to ensure impartiality was patronising. 'Women like Salamé are expected to sacrifice their jobs to uphold an outdated notion of neutrality, while male journalists navigate similar conflicts with less consequence,' the column said. Salamé is to take over presenting the 'JT' in September after Anne-Sophie Lapix lost her job last month because of falling ratings. Lapix, 53, is married to Arthur Sadoun, the chief executive of Publicis, the French-based advertising company.
CNA
14-05-2025
- Business
- CNA
France's Le Monde enters into content partnership with AI startup Perplexity
French newspaper Le Monde entered into a content partnership with U.S.-based artificial intelligence company Perplexity on Wednesday, as AI startups compete for deals with news publications to improve the responses of their products amid intensifying competition. The deal grants Perplexity access to Le Monde's content to enhance its search engine's responses, while the newspaper will use the Nvidia-backed startup's technology to develop new AI products. This partnership will also support publishers whose content is featured in Perplexity's generated answers. "At Le Monde, we have continued to explore new partnerships with leading AI players to enlarge our audience, expand our development capacities, and to build new sources of revenues," said Louis Dreyfus, Le Monde's CEO. Perplexity has already secured agreements with over a dozen media partners, including the Los Angeles Times and the Independent, as part of a program that shares a portion of ad revenue with the publishers. Meanwhile, AI firms have faced lawsuits from media groups and news publishers, who accuse them of unlawfully using content and articles without permission to train AI models.
