Archive d’étiquettes pour : Prix François Sergy

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

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“I dedicate this award to all those who have 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. Visibly 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 of the DRC Receives the François Sergy Award

The training seminar for Christian media professionals in French-speaking Africa concluded on Friday, November 27, with the presentation of the François Sergy Award to a deserving media initiative. Jean-Luc Simbilyabo, from eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, received the award for an original “integral radio” project.

On Friday, November 27, during the closing ceremony of the training week organized by the Francophone African Christian Media Forum (FOMECAF), Congolese pastor Jean-Luc Simbilyabo received the François Sergy Award. “In Ituri Province, a region deeply marked by intertribal unrest, this radio director took on the challenge of ‘integral radio’ and helped spread a message of peace and reconciliation over the airwaves,” noted Emmanuel Ziehli, director of Radio Réveil and a key figure in the Lomé 3 organization.

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