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SENEGAL: Binta Sagna ranked among the 365 leaders shaping the image of Africa in 2017.
The highly regarded Johannesburg magazine, Tropics Magazine.com, which celebrates its seven years of existence, has ranked Binta Sagna among the 365 leaders who make Africa in 2017. Leaders who want to shape the image of Africa by ideas and actions. The campaign, titled “#African DOers,” lists African girls and boys from all walks of life.
The annual ranking puts prominent figures of Afro-optimism in the limelight, each in separate but complementary fields, the hope of a dynamic Africa and a land of creativity while recognizing the contributions of these young leaders. which “shape the image of Africa”. As the magazine celebrates its 7th anniversary this month, the TROPICS editorial team publishes its success stories for the second time in a row and launches, through its hashtag #AfricanDOers, a vibrant call to action for Africans to re-image from their continent. Among these 365 African leaders from Senegal are Adama Ndiaye aka Adama Paris, Magatte Wade, Dji Dieng, and Binta Sagna She who defines herself as a Senegauloise, is a woman of networks and influence, she was born in France of Senegalese parents immigrants in the 60s. Binta Sagna is founder of a communication agency: “La Sénégauloise”, c ‘ is an activist activist who knows how to weave her web in various circles ranging from politics, sport, music, art or business, but always related to Africa. Binta Sagna explains that communication is only the purpose of a network and mobilization criteria, these mobilization criteria are based on trust in long-standing partners.
She explains to Financial Afrik’s writing her definition of Leadership: “My mother worked for a French millionaire for years and I was able to observe the relationship of human relationships and the relationship that sometimes binds people hypocritically exclusively on the basis of money. For my part, without really having the choice I chose the path of the social elevator, a worker child who became an executive, it was common in the France of full-employment of the 1960s, now it is a real obstacle course, this lift that allows people from a certain social background to access the upper class is now able to experience breakdowns, but we identify failures, restart to reach each times a higher floor, certainly it is longer but on each floor we have crossed people, these people are the essential base of my network ” “Money has become the only prism in the lives of many people, their only motivation, their only value. I sometimes find myself unsettled in times of emptiness, certainly money is necessary but the “influencers” or “leaders” as we are defined do not primarily seek these things, they seek loyalty, are busy creating a hyper restricted network of trust and ethics, or at least to build a network where we can identify reputations or engage without major risk taking. In my opinion, all human action should not be exclusively judged by a single monolithic identification grid, namely money, it is paradoxical to mention this aspect with Financial Afrik but it is my vision of development as a new leaders of tomorrow for the African continent.
Source: financialafrik.com
In Cameroon, about 7 million children, including more than 1.5 million in school, do not have a birth certificate. The absence of this essential document for access to education, health and other public services, particularly affects rural areas and the regions of the Far North, Northwest and Southwest. The subject was discussed during the 3rd International Economic Days of Municipalities (JEICOM), held from June 2 to 4, 2025, at the Palais des Congrès in Yaoundé.
A deplorable situation at the moment when Cameroon is celebrating the 5th edition of Children’s Day under the theme “Child-sensitive budgeting and planning: a strategic lever for the promotion and protection of children’s rights”.
Faced with the constant problem of establishing birth certificates in Cameroon, the government, through the National Civil Registry Office (BUNEC), collaborates with partners such as UNICEF or the World Bank in order to provide an effective response to the phenomenon.
In this dynamic, the Bunec provides the town halls with tools to ensure a “compliant and reliable registration of births”. It also supports them in the modernization of the civil status system, including the digitization of registers. UNICEF has enabled some town halls to strengthen their human resources capacities and develop innovative strategies.
Several initiatives were launched, notably the national forum on universal birth registration, organized in April 2024, which brought together mayors, civil status officials, and partners to discuss solutions to the problem.
A violent mutiny broke out this Tuesday, June 3, 2025, at the Maison Pénale de Bouaké in Ivory Coast. While the Prison Administration was conducting a routine search within the establishment, it encountered hostility from the inmates of Building E. According to the prosecutor’s statement, they “were attacking them with the help of clubs, machetes and other blunt objects.” To clear themselves, the agents were forced to carry out warning shots in order to cover their retreat.
Unfortunately, this incident led to a heavy toll: “the death of five (05) detainees is to be deplored. Twenty-nine (29) injured, including six (06) prison officers and twenty-three (23) detainees, were also recorded,” said the public prosecutor. He specifies that the injured were taken care of and a coroner was requested for findings of use in such circumstances.
The rapid intervention of the forces of the Gendarmerie and the National Police allowed to limit the violence and restore order. The search operation then continued without further incidents. She led to the discovery of “several blocks of cannabis, platelets of Tramadol tablets, eighteen (18) mobile phones, including eight (08) smartphones, three (03) grenades, knives etc… strictly prohibited in detention.
The prosecutor recalled that previous excavations had already led to the discovery of bladed weapons
More than 200 people were found dead after the sudden floods that hit the Central West of Nigeria on Thursday, May 29, 2025, announced the humanitarian coordinator of the state of Niger in a new report, Tuesday, June 3. Hundreds of victims are still missing.
The balance sheet is getting heavier. Trapped by sudden floods in west-central Niger, many people were still missing on Tuesday 3 June. The humanitarian coordinator of Niger state said that the death toll now exceeds 200, while hundreds of people are still missing.
“We have more than 200 bodies,” Ahmad Suleiman told Channels Television. “No one can say at the moment how many deaths there are in the state of Niger because we are still looking for other bodies,” he added.
The research continues
“We continue to search but sincerely, we cannot be sure of anything,” he added. Many victims were counted in Mokwa, the most affected agglomeration and a neighborhood of which was wiped out within hours Thursday by flood waters from the Niger River. Since then, volunteers and rescue teams have been combing the area under an overwhelming heat, sometimes finding bodies up to 10 kilometers away.
The coordinator’s announcement comes after the official toll remained stuck at 150 deaths, although some residents deplore the loss of more than a dozen family members.
Fifteen of the 36 states in Nigeria had been placed on flood alert a few days before the disaster. Climate change amplifies extreme weather events in Nigeria but for the people of Mokwa, the tragedy is also linked to human failures. In Mokwa, muddy waters swept away hundreds of houses in the town, including the lack of maintenance of the nozzles designed to evacuate floodwaters, which were clogged with debris on the day of the flood.
The death toll could exceed the 321 deaths from the floods that occurred in 34 of Nigeria’s 36 states in 2024. The Nigerian government claims to have provided aid, but on the spot, the inhabitants feel left to themselves and several families said they had received nothing.
Source: la-croix.com/ Photo credit: TV5
