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DRC: "Since Lomé 2, they've been calling me 'Papa Météo'"

From November 23 to 27, around sixty media professionals traveled to Lomé, Togo, for a week of training. During this third edition, some participants testified to the changes brought about by this new dynamic initiated by Radio Réveil (Bevaix). Here is the testimony of a radio station president from Congo Kinshasa. This written contribution is accompanied by a radio program produced byDodji Juliette Kpessou (Radio Hosanna, Porto-Novo, Benin) and Benjamin Holl (Radio Vie nouvelle, Douala, Cameroon).

His name is Johnson Kipesse. He is the president of Radio and Television Evangelical and Development Hermon in Rutshuru (RTEDH), a town in North Kivu some 70 kilometers north of Goma. This citizen of the Democratic Republic of Congo participated in Lomé 2 in November 2019, a meeting organized by the Forum of Christian Media in French-speaking Africa, which addressed the theme: "Let's invent integral radio!"

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Ivory Coast: Lomé seminars give rise to a corporation of Christian audiovisual professionals

After Lomé 1 and 2, organized by Radio Réveil and its partners, Christian media actors in Côte d'Ivoire understood the urgency of coming together and ceasing to operate in scattered ranks. With this in mind, two presenters created the Union of Christian Journalists and Presenters of Côte d'Ivoire (UJACCI) in August 2020.

Christian media outlets in Côte d'Ivoire have long suffered from a climate of competition and a lack of collaboration between the various people working within them. The Lomé 1 and 2 seminars, organized by Radio Réveil in Lomé, Togo, in 2019, helped these media professionals understand the similarities in their challenges: radio station funding, precarious staff salaries, lack of effective evangelism strategies, etc. In light of this, Christian journalists, presenters, and broadcasters decided to set up an association that will address the various problems they face.

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Zenabou Ndocki (Radio Bonne Nouvelle, Douala, Cameroon)

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François Sergy Award presented to Dodji Juliette Kpessou

Dodji Juliette Kpessou receives the François Sergy Encouragement Award

During the training seminar for Christian radio stations in French-speaking Africa, the organizers decided to award Dodji Juliette Kpessou, journalist and presenter at Radio Hosanna in Porto-Novo, the François Sergy Encouragement Prize for producing 50 audio clips entitled "L'O2Vie, une goutte chaque jour" (L'O2Vie, a drop every day).

"These achievements by Dodji Juliette Kpessou reflect what we want to promote: the exchange of programs between Christian radio stations in French-speaking Africa," explained Emmanuel Ziehli, director of Radio Réveil.

The François Sergy Encouragement Award was launched as part of the Lomé Weeks for the training of Christian media actors in French-speaking Africa. It aims to reward initiatives that promote exchanges between radio stations. This encouragement award is named after Radio Réveil journalist François Sergy, who died in 2018.

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Certificate presentation ceremony - Lomé 2

Christian radio stations in French-speaking Africa form a network

To give their relationship a representative form, Christian radio stations in French-speaking Africa have formed a network. Some forty radio stations are already involved in this project, which aims to encourage collaboration and the sharing of professional resources. This decision was taken during Lomé 2, the second training seminar for Christian radio stations in French-speaking Africa, held from November 25 to 29 in the Togolese capital.

On Friday, November 29, some 170 representatives of religious radio stations gathered in Lomé for a second training seminar on journalism and radio techniques decided to launch a radio network. The objectives of the network are to foster close relations between radio stations in the same region or city, exchange programs, provide mutual technical assistance, and develop a press agency capable of relaying news about the Christian and evangelical movement in French-speaking Africa. All of this is in the spirit of the Lomé Declaration, signed on January 18, 2019.

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Speakers and organizers of #Lomé2

170 religious media actors from French-speaking Africa receive training in "integral radio" in Lomé

In French-speaking Africa, radio is the medium par excellence. For one week, some 170 representatives of religious radio stations are gathering in Lomé, Togo, for a new week of training. Organized jointly by the Radio Réveil association in Bevaix and Radio Ebène et Développement in France, this week aims to develop the quality of Christian radio stations in Africa.

On Monday, November 25, more than 170 representatives from 72 religious radio stations in French-speaking Africa gathered in Lomé, Togo, for a week of training on the theme "Inventing Integral Radio." In the opening session, Communications Minister Folly-Bazi Katari welcomed the fact that the seminar aimed to "promote excellence in Christian media." He also considered that "this seminar was timely in addressing the major challenges of integrating new information and communication technologies and promoting ethics and professional conduct." The minister also called on religious media actors to "safeguard peace in our countries" so that Muslims and Christians can peacefully attend their places of worship on Fridays and Sundays.

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In Lomé, Christian radio stations in French-speaking Africa asked to reinvent themselves – Togo Breaking News
Christian radio stations in Africa ready to go all-in – Togo Breaking News

Interview with Emmanuel Ziehli, director of Radio Réveil

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Lomé 2 - Seminar

Let's invent the all-in-one radio

The next edition of the Training Seminar for Christian Radio Stations in French-speaking Africa will take place from November 25 to 29, 2019, in Lomé.

Over five days, Serge Carrel ( journalist ) , Blaise Gaïtou (director of YWAM in Niger), Emmanuel Ziehli (director of Radio Réveil), Jean Elchinger (IT specialist), Alphonse Teyabe (researcher and teacher in Cameroon), Franck Jeanneret (pastor), Christian Gaspoz (FM specialist), Andrea Luzi ( sound technician ) , Paolo Jean Bedogni (doctor), and Paul Zagré (YWAM missionary in Niger) will address various topics such as quality, integral radio, radio for souls, unity, etc., in the form of plenary sessions in the morning and practical workshops in the afternoon. See the detailed program.

The training is aimed specifically at:station presidentsand directors, station managers, journalists, technical managers, broadcasters, professionals in the fields of communication, marketing, and the Internet, and directors/editors.

Participating countries: Benin – Burkina Faso – Cameroon – Central African Republic – Congo – Ivory Coast – Mali – Niger – Senegal – Togo

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