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Africa noon: the last of Assane Diop on RFI

From left to right: Laurent Chaffard, editor-in-chief of RFI's Africa department, Christophe Boisbouvier, director of RFI's Africa branch, and Asanne Diop, senior reporter and presenter at RFI, in our Jean Hélène studio for the last of Africa noon from our colleague.

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Carine Frenk Follow |

Assane Diop

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When he arrived at Radio France International, the Berlin Wall was still standing and Nelson Mandela was still in prison.

Today, Assane Diop is retiring.

A well-deserved retirement, after more than 35 years of reporting, interviews and presenting.

At 12:30 p.m. in universal time, this Saturday, October 8 on RFI, took place the last appearance on the antenna of our colleague for the journal d'Afrique midi.

We wish Assane much happiness in his new life.

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Carine Frenk, RFI Africa editorial staff: Assane Diop, you are leaving RFI today.

This Saturday, October 8, you are presenting your latest edition of Afrique midi.

Assane Diop:

Indeed, the time for retirement has come, after more than 35 years spent at Radio France internationale, years of reporting, presenting newspapers, in particular

, and the magazine

on RFI and TV5 Monde.

RFI will thus have allowed me to travel freely across Africa.

I will remember from the news during these three decades the promises of democratization in Africa through national conferences after the fall of the Berlin wall.

Promises often remained vain everywhere.

Thirty years later, some countries are still faced with politico-military conflicts, to which have been added jihadism and the return of military coups, as in the good old days of the Cold War.

So, in the mid-1990s, I experienced at RFI the end of apartheid, preceded by the

in South Africa, and on the dark side of the news, this unnamed tragedy of the

.

Nowadays, there is this dangerous rise of populism, of political populism, against a backdrop of social crises, misinformation and above all travesty of History on the networks.

Retirement, end to journalism, Assane

Rather an active retirement: family, travel, reading, writing, opera… Sharing my experience with future African journalists, the list is long.

Goodbye Assane.

Goodbye dear Carine, and dear colleagues present or gone from RFI.

Goodbye, dear listeners, a special thought for Danielle Lefebvre and Édouard Dor who extended a warm hand to me on my arrival here at Radio France International.

As of today, October 8, 2022, I am going to the other side of the RFI microphone to remain a loyal listener of Radio France internationale.

Farewell to Assane Diop

Assane DiopCarine Frenk

Thanks from the entire editorial staff, but also from RFI journalists who worked with you, Assane, and who wished to salute your career.

In order of appearance: Bernard Nageotte, Madeleine Mukamabano and Danielle Lefebvre.

This is the end of this edition and therefore of my ultimate 

of Africa noon.

Goodbye to all and thank you (...) Dear listeners, I invite you to remain above all faithful to listening to Radio France internationale.

Good day to you.

Midday Africa, by Assane Diop

RFI

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