📰 Mo Ibrahim is Anglo-Sudanese engineer, businessman and philanthropist. In 1998, he founded the mobile phone operator Celtel, a pioneer in providing borderless networks across 14 East African countries. At the time the company was sold seven years later, it counted 24 million subscribers --- that’s comparable to half of France’s population. The 3,4 billion dollars deal made him a billionaire.

He has continuously been engaged in the fight against corruption. In 2006, he then set up the @MoIbrahimfoundation for leadership and good governance in #Africa, which made him a household name on the African political scene. This foundation publishes a yearly data-based governance index, which ranks the continent’s 54 states along criteria ranging from security and rule of law to human development. It also delivers the Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership, which is awarded to a former head of state or government within the three years of their leaving office. But more often than not, it is not awarded for lack of suitable laureates.

He was in Paris in January 2024 to participate in the Youth and Leaders Summit, an annual event at Psia Sciences Po, which brings together the decision-makers of today and tomorrow.

Thank you Mo Ibrahim for sharing with us your insights about the nights that have marked your career and personal life.

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📰 Anette Young, is a senior journalist and TV news presenter for France 24, as well as the creator and host of the @_51percent, a show about the most pressing issues affecting women around the world. She has previously worked as the Jerusalem correspondent for France 24 and as a reporter, editor and producer in your home country, Australia. She was awarded the gold medal in broadcast journalism in the Ricardo Ortega prize awarded by the U.N. Correspondents’ Association for your work on ‘The 51 Percent’ in 2018 and were selected as a 'Game Changer' and a social impact finalist in the Global Australian Awards for your contribution to gender journalism in 2023.

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💡Based on an original idea Alice Antheaume

This episode was recorded on May 23rd of 2024.

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📰 Filippo Grandi is the head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, a UN agency headquartered in Geneva offering assistance to those forced to flee conflicts and persecution worldwide, such as refugees and forcibly displaced people, as well as people to whom nationality is denied. He previously served as the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), and worked with the United Nations in numerous other countries that faced or still face a multitude of crises, such as Yemen, Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Syria and Iraq.

In this episode, he talks about how he personally approach these crises, as the number of forcibly displaced people and refugees worldwide keeps rising and is now almost two times higher than 10 years ago. This episode was recorded on March 1st of 2024 and the international conflicts he is referring to may have had new outcomes since then.

Sciences Po Journalism School and The Paris School of International Affairs launched the third season of “What keeps you up at night,” the podcast that covers how leaders sleep when dealing with some of the world’s biggest crises.

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Doctor Jelani Cobb is Dean of Columbia Journalism School, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and board member for the American Journalism Project. His prioritization of access, diversity and democracy in journalism has led him to be @peabodyawards winner and @pulitzerprizes finalist. Historian and media specialist, Dean Cobb published books on a range of topics. He is a specialist in race/politics and writes for the New Yorker Magazine regularly.

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On June 8th, 2023, the Israeli military raided Ramallah in the West Bank. Khaled Abu Qare was out in the streets.

He was used to the regular presence of the Israeli military during his time in East Jerusalem. But when he lived in Ramallah, just 18 kilometers away, he found himself unprepared for the raids.

That is why when Khaled heard that the Israeli army was raiding his hometown, he decided to go out and document the events. Clashes erupted. Stun grenades and tear gas were fired. Many were injured. Amidst the chaos, Khaled Abu Qare did not sleep.

Our guests :

• Khaled Abu Qare, student at Sciences Po Paris and Palestinian activist

• Gallagher Fenwick, journalist

• Laura-Maï Gaveriaux, reporter specializing in the Middle East and a correspondent for Le Parisien newspaper

• Damien Simonneau, Senior lecturer of political science at INALCO
  

This episode was directed, written and produced by Michal Kubala, Aarushi Srivastava, Flavia Bevilacqua, and Cyrille Amoursky under the supervision of Lorraine Besse.

Music: Theo Boulenger

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💡Based on an original idea Alice Antheaume

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On July 12th 1998 France won the world cup. 3:0 against Brazil, and on top of that, in the home stadium in Paris. It was a night of ecstatic celebration for all of France. This episode of “The Night I Didn’t Sleep” recreates the events of this night which would go down in the history books. But with the French national team being more diverse than ever before, this world cup was more than just a sporting event: It was political.

So what were the deeper implications of this historic win? How did it shape France's societal narrative and political landscape? Delve into the intertwining of sport and politics on that unforgettable, sleepless July night, revealing the lasting impact it had on French identity and unity.

Our guests :

• Maxime Dupuis, the deputy Editor in Chief of Eurosport

• Hermann Ebongué, the secretary general of SOS Racisme

• Yvan Gastaut, historian specialized in immigration in France and its relationship to sport.

This episode was written, directed and produced by İlayda Habip, Julia Rougié, Ioana Plesea, Mascha Wolf under the supervision of Lorraine Besse. English Dub: Cyrille Amoursky, Edoardo Gaggi, Michal Kubala, Luca Matteucci

Music: Théo Boulenger

✒ Illustration: Marine Coutroutsios

💡Based on an original idea Alice Antheaume

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On April 21, 2002, an earthquake shook France. The far right made it to the second round of the presidential election. It was a first in the Fifth Republic's history and the surprise was total. It triggered an unprecedented mobilization. Embodied in the person of Jean-Marie Le Pen, the far right frightened the French people, who massively rallied between the two rounds.

21 years on, French people have not forgotten that night when the cards were reshuffled and political life almost turned upside down. In this podcast, we talked to several people who were deeply affected by that night in April 2002. It left an indelible mark in their minds, and was a pivotal moment in their relationship with politics.

Our guests:

• Nonna Mayer, CNRS researcher and specialist on the far right in France

• Béatrice Gurrey, senior reporter at Le Monde, in charge of political news

• Guillaume Baudet, RPR activist during the 2002 presidential campaign

• Sarah Kerrich, PS national secretary for the fight against the far right

This episode was written, directed and produced by Cristina Coellen, Juliette Laffont and Sarah Miansoni, under the supervision of Lorraine Besse.

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December 12th, 2015. The newly adopted Paris Agreement makes headlines across the world. 196 delegations managed to adopt a legally binding agreement to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees celsius. It was a diplomatic success that left its mark on the people who participated.

Alexandre Ziegler, chief of staff of the French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who presided over COP21, and Paul Watkinson, chief negotiator for the French delegation, recount the final days before the adoption of the Paris Agreement, along with Pauline Boyer, a climate activist who demonstrated during the conference.

For all of them, there was one constant during COP21: little to no sleep.

How do you get 196 delegations from around the world to agree on one document? What kept the negotiators up at night? How do you write up an international agreement when you've barely had a wink of sleep?

Our guests:

• Pauline Boyer, a climate activist, ecofeminist, co-author of the Manifesto for Non-Violence, currently in charge of the energy and nuclear transition campaign for Greenpeace, and editor of the magazine Alternatives Non-Violentes.

• Paul Watkinson, currently Advisor to the Minister of Climate Change and Environment of the UAE, contributing to the preparation of COP28, he was also Chief Negotiator and Head of the Climate Negotiations Team for the French Ministry of Ecological Transition.

• Alexandre Ziegler, French civil servant and diplomat. Chief of Staff to the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2012 to 2016, French Ambassador to India from 2016 to 2019, he has been Safran's Director of International Group and Institutional Relations in France since 2019.

This episode was written, directed and produced by Morgane Anneix, Luca Matteucci and Aurore Laborie, under the supervision of Lorraine Besse.

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