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This year's François Sergy Prize goes to Abdoulaye Cissé, radio director in Timbuktu.

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"I dedicate this award to all those who lost their lives because of their faith!" Abdoulaye Cissé is the director of Radio Tahanint in Timbuktu, Mali. A pastor and businessman at heart, he received the François Sergy Award on Friday, November 26, in Lomé, Togo, during the closing ceremony of the fourth training week for Christian media professionals in French-speaking Africa. Deeply moved, the 55-year-old man, dressed in a traditional yellow boubou, added that he was also dedicating this award to his mentor, Abdoulaye Sangho, Trans World Radio's international director for West and Central Africa, one of the main speakers at Lomé 4, who was present that day.

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Lomé 3: Jean-Luc Simbilyabo from the DRC receives the François Sergy Prize

The training seminar for Christian media professionals in French-speaking Africa ended on Friday, November 27, with the awarding of the François Sergy Prize to a deserving media initiative. Jean-Luc Simbilyabo from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo won the prize for an original "integral radio" project.

On Friday, November 27, during the closing ceremony of the training week of the Forum of Christian Media in French-speaking Africa (FOMECAF), Congolese pastor Jean-Luc Simbilyabo received the François Sergy Award. "In the province of Ituri, a region deeply marked by intertribal unrest, this radio director took up the challenge of 'integral radio' and contributed through the airwaves to bringing a message of peace and reconciliation," noted Emmanuel Ziehli, director of Radio Réveil and the driving force behind the Lomé 3 organization.

Read the rest of the interview on the website lafree.info

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