Six African filmmakers have been awarded prizes by Unesco and Netflix, the American giant, following a competition they organised to reveal emerging filmmakers from sub-Saharan Africa. To identify new talent among young filmmakers in sub-Saharan Africa, finance their projects and enable them to be released on Netflix in 2022. This is the objective of the UN agency, Unesco, and the American giant who have launched a short film competition on the theme of “reinventing African folk tales”, aimed at supporting film creation in Africa. The said competition launched in 2021, had its lucky winners in mid-March 2023. They are Voline…
Author: Eliane Fatchina
Eliane Fatchina
Eliane Yabo Omonlayo Fatchina is a reporter of Afro impact. She holds a professional degree in journalism from ENSTIC in Benin, she is a pan-Africanist passionate about culture, social issues and the environment. With already seven years of experience, she works daily to give voice to ideas through writing.
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The military junta in power in Burkina Faso announced on Monday 27 March that it had suspended the broadcasting of programs by the news channel France 24 throughout Burkina Faso. The authorities claimed that France 24 gave an interview a fortnight ago to the head of the terrorist group AQIM (Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb). “By opening its airwaves to the head of AQIM, France 24 is not only acting as a communication agency for these terrorists, but it is also providing a space for legitimising terrorist actions and hate speech to satisfy the evil aims of this organisation in…
In Benin, the question of a probable third term for President Talon is already attracting attention. Just after the legislative elections, some of Benin’s Head of State’s supporters are inviting him to run for the supreme magistracy once again. However, facing the press online this Friday, March 24, 2023, the government spokesman Wilfried Léandre Houngbédji is very clear and reassures that “Talon does not want a third term. According to Wilfried Léandre Houngbédji, the declarations of Jacques Migan, Loth Houénou and Bertin Koovi, who call on Patrice Talon to run for a third term of office, are their own responsibility.…
The Ugandan parliament passed a law on Tuesday 21 March that further strengthens the criminalisation of homosexuality. The new text, the content of which has not yet been made public, provides for heavy penalties against people who have homosexual relationships or even claim to be LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer). Homosexuality in Uganda is already illegal. Anyone convicted of or engaging in homosexual acts can be sentenced to up to ten years in prison. But the parliamentarians have again hardened their tone. “This House will not hesitate to restrict any right as long as it recognises, protects and safeguards…
The GDIZ organised open days called GDIZOpenDays for school children, pupils and students in Benin
In Benin, starting from Saturday 25 March, the operation to check the number plates of two-wheelers, tricycles and quadricycles will be launched. This was stated in a press release issued by the Minister of the Interior and Public Security on 14 March. No more unregistered motorbikes on Benin’s roads. This means that motorcyclists whose machines do not have number plates will now find it difficult to move freely. The Republican Police will check the number plates of vehicles on the road from this Saturday. The initiative aims to improve the safety of goods and people on the roads. The statement…
An integrated high-level mission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will visit Burkina Faso from March 21 to 27, 2023, according to the website of the sub-regional organization. The objective is to assess and validate the technical humanitarian needs of the country for the year 2023. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) sent an integrated technical humanitarian needs assessment and validation mission to Burkina Faso on Tuesday, March 21. According to the organization, “This mission is part of the implementation of the decision of paragraph 31 of the 62nd Ordinary Session of ECOWAS Heads of…
More than 400 people have been sentenced to life imprisonment for the death of former Chadian head of state, Marshal Idriss Déby. The defendants are rebels from Fact (Front for Change and Concord in Chad). The verdict released on Tuesday March 21 also indicates that 24 defendants were acquitted for lack of evidence. After more than a month of hearings, the judges in charge of the case sentenced the detained defendants to life imprisonment on Tuesday, as well as one of the Fact’s executives, Mahamat Mahdi Ali, in absentia. The charges against them are “acts of terrorism, mercenarism, enlisting children…
The President of the Algerian Republic Abdelmadjid Tebboune, ordered this Monday 20 March 2023 during a meeting of the Council of Ministers, to apply a reduction of 50% on air and sea travel for Algerians in the diaspora, for this month of Ramadan 2023. Good news for Algerians living abroad. While they have always complained about the high cost of airline tickets to their country, Tebboune’s government has just responded to their request. At least for this month of Ramadan 2023. The President of the Republic has decided to grant an exceptional reduction of air and sea transport prices during…
Kidnapped since April 8, 2021 in Gao, Mali by the Group of Support for Islam and Muslims (Jnim), the French journalist Olivier Dubois has been released. He landed in Niamey on March 20, 2023. Olivier Dubois, a journalist working for Libération, Le Point and Jeune Afrique in Mali, is now free. He spent 711 (seven hundred and eleven) days as a hostage in the Sahel.. He was kidnapped in Gao on April 8, 2021, where he had gone to interview a jihadist leader. His captivity lasted almost two years. This Monday, March 20, 2023, his ordeal came to an end.…
