France: Four African journalists win RFI prize

Four journalists from Cameroon, Madagascar and Morocco have won RFI's press freedom award. RFI, Reporters without Borders and the International Francophonie Organisation announced the results for the Prix francophone pour la liberté de la presse on Wednesday evening at the musée Dapper in Paris.

The prize, which was established in 2001, rewards the best news report in French concerning human right.

William Rasoanaivo from Madagascar won the drawing category for a cartoon entitled 50 years of independence in Africa, which appeared in Mauritian daily L'Express Dimanche.

Moroccans Aïcha Akalay and Hassan Hamdani won the written and electronic press prize for an article called Investigation: the temptation of Christ, published in Tel Quel Magazine.

Cameroonian Rosine-Flore Azanméné won the Prix Jean Hélène radio prize for a report on the food in Yaoundé's central prison, which was played on Radio Tiemeni Siantou.

Nkondengui prison provides the same food every day – white corn and beans – and never enough of it. It is prepared in extremely unhygienic conditions and the prisoners suffer from serious malnutrition.

The prize winners are all online here: www.prix-rfi-rsf-oif.org/

The jury was headed by journalist and writer Patrick Poivre d'Arvor. The other members were Sidiki Kaba, honorary president of the International Human Rights Federation, journalist Michèle Montas, who is former spokesman of the United Nations Secretary General, and the cartoonist Plantu, president of the Cartooning for Peace foundation.

The winners each received 2,500 euros, a laptop computer and a three-day trip to Paris.

Source:Four African journalists win RFI prize http://rfi.my/eUwRcA

(Yimber Gaviria, Colombia)