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Context  As a voice for advocacy and engagement, AfricTivistes has launched an information platform www.dialoguemigration.com to co-produce and disseminate verified, contextualised and circumstantial information on migration away from political divides and sensationalism. The platform aims to produce reliable and balanced information on migration, to create a space for information and dialogue on migration, to serve […]

Hammady Chérif Bah, a Guinean journalist trained in France, returned to his country, specifically to Mamou, the epicentre of « irregular emigration » in Guinea, to meet returned migrants.  Having left secretly in search of a better future, these unfortunate immigration candidates, known as “returnees”, are now living a new life far from the illusion […]

Since the train’s whistle stopped sounding, life seems to have stood still in Mahina, Cercle of Bafoulabé, region of Kayes in Mali. Here, all economic activities revolved around the train, which used to leave Bamako for Dakar, the Senegalese capital. The shutdown of railway operations and, consequently, that of the local economy forced many young […]

Mauritania is located in West Africa’s Sahel area. It is considered as a country of transit and destination for migrants, particularly those from the sub-Saharan region. Indeed, the Islamic Republic has a 463-km border with Morocco, which makes it a link between the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa. Because of its geographical position, the nation is […]

Potential migrants have had to address three essential challenges for a successful immigration story. Preparing their departure, successfully integrating into the host country, and preparing or planning their homecoming. Usually, none of these three steps is of rest for Senegalese wanting to find refuge in France or anywhere else in the world.  Sixty-six (66) years […]

AfricTivistes will be launching on Thursday, September 29th, 2022 at 11 a.m. GMT a new information platform specialised on migration issues during a webinar themed “Migration Issue: Looking Beyond Sensationalism, Politicisation and Stereotypes”. AfricTivistes’s Dialogue Migration project provides the public with a web platform where they co-produce and disseminate verified, contextualised and detailed information on […]