As a former project coordinator for regional and international organisations for the past 15 years, Florianne Heine will oversee RSF's activities in the six countries covered by this bureau - Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia. She will also coordinate the work of a committed team including RSF's Algiers-based North Africa representative, Khaled Drareni, who acts as RSF's spokesperson in the region; North Africa advocacy officer, Samir Bouaziz, and the project officer, Alia Kerkeni. Florianne Heine has worked with a range of actors including local media, journalists, civil society organisations and government authorities. She has devoted much of her career to working on projects related to stability, peacekeeping and crisis management in West Africa and, more recently, in North Africa and the Middle East region. "We have ambitious goals for our cause in North Africa, and Florianne's job will be to increase the impact of RSF's activities on journalistic freedom, independence and pluralism in the region," RSF secretary-general Christophe Deloire said.

Source: The North Africa Journal June 09, 2023 09:58 UTC