FRANCE-AFRICA-MEDIA-INTERNET-ACTIVIST

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY BORIS BACHORZ Cyber-activist from Benin and founder of the website web-tv IrawoTalents.com promoting young talents from Benin Mylene Flicka (L) and cyber-activist from Mali and senior manager in a large group of Senegalese media Cheikh Fall (R), pose in Paris, on November 23, 2016. African youth seized in a few years social medias and use them to express themself and to mobilise. The authoritarian regimes are concerned about the phenomenon and are ready to cut internet during a political crisis, pointed a study. The research on "digital citizenship" in Africa took an inventory of 4.000 "cyber-activists" in seven countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Republic Democratic of Congo, Ghana, Madagascar, Senegal). / AFP / ALAIN JOCARD (Photo credit should read ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty Images)