Arts and EntertainmentCompagnie Hervé Koubi explores roots in ‘What the Day Owes to the Night’ Jan related 'Joyfull' meal and conversation Jan 21The company founder’s dancers are from countries all over the world too,” Hervé Koubi said in a 2023 interview with Nashville Scene medically trained dance artist Hervé Koubi questioned his last name The revelation inspired Koubi to launch a personal journey that led to the founding of his contemporary dance company Compagnie Hervé Koubi is a brotherhood of dancers primarily from North Africa The internationally acclaimed performers combine expertise in capoeira The dancers of Compagnie Hervé Koubi will translate the choreographer’s journey in “What the Day Owes to the Night,” a semi-autobiographical account of a buried ancestry in a nod to universal origin stories in Eisenhower Auditorium at Penn State University Park “What the Day Owes to the Night” explores Koubi's journey between a perceived comfort zone of French privilege and a destination that revealed a rich and complicated personal family history The performance is a collaborative response to Koubi’s journey to Algeria to discover his roots; there he worked with a group of male street dancers in disciplines including martial arts “He [Koubi] thought that he had roots in France, but actually, no … he was from Africa,” said Compagnie Hervé Koubi executive director Guillaume Gabriel in a Center for the Performing Arts interview who thought that his great-grandparents were coming from Brittany were placed in France and went back with the kind of colonization in the 19th century; and then came back to France again with the events of independency in Algeria The wide-ranging story of “What the Day Owes to the Night” is also present in the soundtrack Call 814-863-0255 or visit Compagnie Hervé Koubi online for more information about the performance and a free community "Joyfull" event Eisenhower Auditorium lobby and Willaman Walkway Join the Center for the Performing Arts at 6 p.m in the Eisenhower Auditorium lobby for an artistic program third floor of the Huck Life Sciences Building The menu will be North African-inspired cuisine Free sustainable utensil sets will be given to first-time attendees while supplies last Returning attendees can help reduce waste by bringing these reusable utensils with them to use at each Joyfull Recipe cards also will be offered at the event; to contribute attendees can bring a recipe of their choice to share The event is free, but registration is required. Visit The Joyfull online for more info and to register Accessibility services supported by the William E Support for The Joyfull events provided by Dick Brown and Sandy Zaremba and the Penn State Equal Opportunity Planning Committee in the Office for the Vice Provost for Educational Equity A grant from the University Park Fee Board makes student prices possible For more information about the season, visit the Center for the Performing Arts online, Facebook and Instagram. “an Hervé bandage dress acts as a bra for your whole body—holding you perfectly in place.” Rihanna at the 2007 Clive Davis Pre-Grammys Party Blake Lively as Serena van der Woodsen on Gossip Girl she included a rainbow gradient dress with white piping by Léger which she says “felt right for the world.” It was purchased before the evening was over “Hervé Léger saw me through some of my brightest and boldest moments of the aughts I don’t think I had ever felt more powerful than when I put on a bandage dress—the sucked in sausage casing effect was perfect for my favorite pastime of that era dancing in the club.” May the members of Gen Z get to experience that same joy that only a bandage dress can provide I Just Got Back From L.A. and Everyone Was Wearing Autry Medalist Low Sneakers Amal Clooney Is All About Rib-Grazing Denim for Spring How to Dress Like the Olsen Twins This Spring and Summer 2025 Rihanna Dresses Cozy and Classic to Solo Dine at Her Favorite Restaurant Sign up for Vogue Shopping to receive the insider’s guide to what to shop and how to wear it Listen to The Run-Through with Vogue a weekly podcast featuring the most exciting stories and hot takes from the worlds of culture Never miss a Vogue moment and get unlimited digital access for just $2 $1 per month as well as new features like our Runway Genius quiz Explore the Runway Image Archive where you can access over 1.2 million runway images from past and present fashion shows. « Back The founder of the lighting design firm L'Observatoire International will be taking part in the Light for Spaces Round Table at The Euroluce International Lighting Forum We talked to him about his career and his sources of inspiration constantly changing in response to its environment despite being a tangible element.Good lighting should adapt to its surroundings evolving in harmony rather than existing as a separate layer disconnected from the building The greatest mistake is designing lighting by focusing on solutions before asking why we are creating this particular design instead of another we first strive to understand how sensitivity will affect the environment and how lighting will intertwine on a conceptual level There are three main elements to consider: the context and the users.We always ask ourselves why we are designing something and how these elements can help answer this question: the specificity of a space or place (a project in the Middle East cannot be envisioned in the same way as one in Europe) the intentions of the designers and architects in shaping their creation and how it will be used in the future.Our goal is to translate this why into our design and concepts collaborates to create the most organic and comprehensive vision of light They are either part of the internal team or act as consultants each bringing their own unique perspectives and expertise The architects I have worked with have been an incredible source of inspiration Collaboration is also deeply personal to me — I truly value the relationships I build developing a strong bond based on trust and communication.It’s not about taking Inspiration flows both ways and is rooted in dialogue allowing me to better understand the designers’ and architects’ intentions They trust me when seeking my input on lighting and I honor that trust by revealing the subtlety of the architecture and its concept result from a diversity and plurality of influences I focus more on social issues and sustainability aiming to translate these concerns into my designs.I lead a very intense life while also balancing family and a rich social life lighting artists have been a major source of inspiration for me — particularly the Light & Space movement and James Turrell (with whom I have collaborated on several projects) my aesthetic has been strongly shaped by classic painters like Georges de La Tour conveying the idea of invisible lighting — to subtly enhance a path and a landmark almost like a magical gesture — while also translating this vision into a technical reality The goal was to create a safe and welcoming environment while maintaining a sense of mystery by concealing all light sources luminance and contrast are amplified due to our eyes' adaptation to darkness we have to avoid high contrast and avoid seeing the light source so we can really see the effect of light.It was also a challenge to walk across several blocks of West Manhattan and rediscover the city at this level without creating a tunnel of light The key was to redistribute softer light throughout the space I don’t think I really chose this path — it chose me.In the ‘80s I had the chance to meet people working in this field opening my eyes to a world of sensitivity I hadn’t been aware of before This newfound sensitivity to light felt like an entirely new universe.Later I took part in the renovation of the Aile Richelieu in the Louvre lighting designers were primarily engineers What interested me was shifting the concept of lighting design into something more creative — almost like being a director of photography I think about the cities of the future and how to create an almost organic system where every energy source complements and supports the others Founder L'Observatoire International - ©L'Observatoire International Calia Italia’s is a family history closely bound up with the values of its region The leading international furnishing and design industry event will be back at Fiera Milano Rho from 21st to 26th April next year mute and earthen shades inspired by nature imaginative variations on interlacing cords or fibers: these are the salient features of the outdoor offerings presented at the fair by companies in the sector Office of Communications and Public AffairsJanuary 8 Editor’s note: The following release was written by Allison Munck ’27 for W&L’s Lenfest Center for the Arts The Lenfest Center at Washington and Lee University presents “Ce que le jour doit á la nuit (What the day owes to the night),” performed by the French-based and Algerian-rooted dance troupe Compagnie Hervé Koubi in the Keller Theatre in the Lenfest Center for the Arts This performance is the fourth installment of the Lenfest Center’s Outreach & Engagement (O&E) Series. Tickets are required and available online or in person at the Lenfest Box Office the performers of “Ce que le jour doit á la nuit” come together in a mesmerizing feat of dance athleticism and cultural exploration that audiences will never forget Hervé Koubi is a French choreographer of Algerian descent who has dedicated himself to bridging cultures and exploring the raw power of expression through dance His compagnie dances to a range of music spanning centuries and the globe including the music of Johannes Sebastian Bach and traditional Egyptian and Sufi arrangements creating poetic dioramas reminiscent of Oriental paintings and Islamic architecture Koubi’s all-male troupe combines urban and contemporary dance styles into choreography reminiscent of desert sand and spinning dervishes Each dancer — few are traditionally trained — brings unique movement and authentic personal style to the stage they create an artistic cohesion built not around identical techniques but mutual understanding and musical connection Compagnie Hervé Koubi has been internationally praised for its incredible feats of acrobatics describes “Ce que le jour doit á la nuit” as relentlessly athletic and is thrilled to bring Koubi’s company to W&L to perform and engage with students in the classroom “The show is evocative of the 21st century while simultaneously mesmerizing and taking you to another time and place,” he said Compagnie Hervé Koubi will work with W&L’s Francophone Student Group in an immersive and empowering evening dialogue and host a W&L Dance masterclass Order your tickets online today or call the Lenfest Center box office at 540-458-8000 for ticket purchase information $27 for W&L faculty and staff and $8 for students This performance is sponsored in part by the Class of 1964 Performing Arts Fund W&L’s Francophone Student Organization and the Department of Theater For a full list of this season’s performances, visit the Lenfest Center’s website and Film Studies and the Department of Music and Department of Art and Art History is a multi-use facility designed and equipped to accommodate a broad spectrum of the performing arts dance and performance art in one energizing complex The late French writer and artist convinced his eccentric relatives to star in a gothic photo novel which is finally being published in English following renewed interest in his work Sean O’HaganSun 10 Nov 2024 14.00 CETShareIn 1974 The pair lived a life of reclusive eccentricity in a Parisian hôtel particulier (grand urban house) in the 15th arrondissement alongside a pampered German shepherd guard dog called Whysky Though Guibert was one of their very few regular visitors he wrote a play based on their life – it was never produced – and took hundreds of photographs of them mostly from across the table at their regular lunches “Everything began to take off when I began to print some photos just to see, to show them,” he recalls in a passage from Suzanne and Louise a roman-photo (photo novel) that first appeared in a French edition in 1980 and is about to be published for the first time in English the sisters agreed to be the subjects of a more ambitious project in which Guibert required them to pose more formally and even act out vignettes that reflected their intertwined lives View image in fullscreen‘Suzanne [right] tyrannical maid.’In her illuminating introduction to the new edition the New York-based artist and photographer Moyra Davey describes it as a “gothic novella in pictures bewitches his shrewd aunts into compliance” if not deploying it outrightThat about nails it but does not quite prepare the reader for the sometimes disturbing dance of words and images that captures the complex psychological dynamic of the sisters’ day-to-day existence – and Guibert’s provocative role in bringing it to light Guibert refers to himself in the third person as though acknowledging his role as a crucial character in the strange familial narrative “They don’t ask him a single question about his life or his work They are amazed by the interest he shows in them View image in fullscreenMixing his writing with his photos Hervé Guibert crafts a unique story.Even without Guibert’s slyly manipulative authorial presence their claustrophobic relationship a study in control and acquiescence is the one with money,” writes Guibert in his tantalisingly scene-setting prologue of suffering … Louise tells tales of drunkenness Hervé Guibert is a difficult artist to pin down Born into a middle-class family in Saint-Cloud he worked fitfully as an actor and film-maker before becoming a columnist for the French newspaper Le Monde in the late 1970s pamphlets and intimately autobiographical novels that are now seen as forerunners of today’s fashionable autofiction genre My Parents gleefully relates some scandalous incidents from his family’s past and recounts in often excruciating detail his pampered upbringing traces his passionate obsession with a drug-taking skateboarder who was just 15 when they first met once considered too edgy and explicit in its depiction of his homosexuality has garnered him a new audience among younger readers who are drawn to his shapeshifting prose that moves fluently between genres and styles “I think Guibert abjured traditional narrative,” says Davey “He preferred the messiness of things not adding up In his diary he actually mentions privileging the ‘botched’ novel over the ‘banality’ of success.” Guibert’s most notorious book, To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life features a narrator who describes his experience of being diagnosed with Aids following the death of his close friend Muzil It became a bestseller in France partly due to the scandal that ensued when reviewers realised that the character of Muzil was based on the French philosopher Michel Foucault Guibert also revealed Foucault had died of Aids-related complications rather than cancer Transgressively intimate and fragmentary in style View image in fullscreenYounger sister Louise The two women’s intertwined lives are ‘ordered by a terrible Nothing must upset their routine.’Suzanne and Louise is of a different order; more mischievous but not without an undertone of moral ambiguity he communicates clandestinely with Suzanne as if he is her suitor: “The letter I might write you could be indecent: it would be a love letter that we communicate better than we do with words through these photographs … ” Her knowing reply – “I don’t know if I should treat your letter as a prank or an exercise in style” – is almost a distillation of Guibert’s approach “I’d say he is being playful and provocative,” says Davey “and seeing to what limits he can push this woman who is 60 years his senior and born in the previous century Suzanne and Louise is a singularly strange and compelling object View image in fullscreenLouise wearing the muzzle of their dog Whysky ‘As soon as I started taking the photograph,’ Guibert writes ‘her entire body changed.’The images move back and forth between the quietly observational and the artfully staged made after their dog Whysky has been put down Louise reluctantly agrees to don his leather muzzle for a photo session “As soon as I started taking the photograph,” Guibert writes The strange triangular drama becomes even stranger with a morbidly mischievous “simulacrum” of Suzanne’s death in which the merging of provocation and black humour becomes truly surreal “I cover her entire body with a white blanket She tries to lift the corpse by gripping it by the hands View image in fullscreen‘The merging of provocation and black humour’: Suzanne’s disturbing enactment of her own death in the photo novel.Suzanne and Louise was published the same year as Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes – another friend of Guibert’s – in which the philosopher meditates on the essential relationship between photographs and mortality he recorded his daily life as he struggled with Aids La Pudeur ou l’Impudeur (Modesty and Shame) was broadcast after his death on French television In a copy of the book they both signed for Guibert Suzanne wrote: “To our very dear ‘grand-nephew’ Hervé in admiration for having pulled from our obscurity this book Suzanne and Louise by Hervé Guibert, translated by Christine Pichini, is published in the ​US on 19 November and the UK on 2 January by Magic Hour Press. To support The Guardian and Observer, order your copy at guardianbookshop.com This is the archive of The Observer up until 21/04/2025 The Observer is now owned and operated by Tortoise Media FALL 2025 READY-TO-WEAR Here Ochs has continued to extrapolate on her ingenious interpretations of the bandage language. The more editorial iterations feature cascades of fringe falling from the knit panels—these will do well with the Hollywood set. But more compelling is the way Ochs is renewing the bandage to make it more relevant today—by adding contrast linework details at the waist that will help with visually sculpting the figure, and playing with mesh material blocking and inserts to create “dimension.” Vivienne Westwood Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear Maison Rabih Kayrouz Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear The idea here was to imbue some positivity, paired with a wardrobe versatile enough to pack up and travel. But Ochs’s birthday and a well-deserved holiday are not all she has ahead of her. This lineup marks a full year of the designer at the label, which has undergone a series of tepid revamps over the past decade or so. Now with a sampling of every season and preseason under her belt, Ochs could really get to work and take Hervé Léger into unexplored territory. “I think it’s come a long way,” said Ochs, reflecting on her year at Hervé Léger. “My goal was always for her to feel like a woman today.” That she’s done. “I want to give her legs,” the designer said when she presented an initial preview of her collection at the Vogue offices just over a year ago. She really meant pants and separates then, but transforming her statement into a metaphor seems apropos here: Ochs’s Hervé Léger certainly has the potential to go the distance. Sachin & Babi Spring 2025 Ready-to-Wear This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Hervé TREBOSSEN holds a Doctorate in Geographic Information Science from Univesité de Marne La Vallée (now Univ Gustave Eiffel) entitled "Contribution of RADAR imagery to marine cartography," particularly in humid tropical zones in Africa He brings more than 20 years of experience in Earth Observation applied to natural resource management Among the Earth Observation projects he has been involved in notable mentions include land cover projects such as Globcover and Landcover CCI (Climate Change Initiative) by the European Space Agency TREBOSSEN has gained progressive experience in international organizations such as the Sahara and Sahel Observatory (Tunis the Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel / AGHRYMET Regional Center (Niamey His work in these organizations encompassed multidisciplinary approaches related and at the French Hydrographic Office (Brest he has been working as a consultant for the European Commission EUMETSAT and the World Meteorological Organisation announces the appointment of Hervé Cornède as Executive Vice-President He will be a member of the Group’s Management Board April 21, 2025 by PLA Editor which is chaired by Marie-Christine Lombard Hervé Cornède has 30 years’ experience in transport and logistics sector he was a member of the Executive Board of the Port of Le Havre he helped set up the Haropa Port EIG (economic interest group) and served as Marketing and Sales Director until 2018 when he became Chairman of the Executive Board of the SOGET Group He is also a French Foreign Trade Advisor (CCEF) a role that involves promoting and supporting the international development of French companies He holds a master’s in international transport and logistics from the University of Paris 1 Sorbonne Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website These cookies do not store any personal information Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads you consent to receive marketing emails from Payload Asia You can revoke your consent to receive emails at any time by using the SafeUnsubscribe® link Disclaimer: Translations on this website are automated using Google Translate as machine translations may contain errors consider seeking professional human translation We are not liable for any reliance on the translated content Hervé Kempf is a journalist and founder of Reporterre an independent French media outlet covering climate and environmental issues He explains his editorial success in this interview in which he also discusses the role of independent media in national and European democratic life The book unpacks the relationship between structural social inequalities and the climate crisis Reporterre – “the media of ecology” – is a model of success and 98% of its revenue comes from reader donations (mainly small donations while the remaining 2% comes from book sales thanks to a partnership with Le Seuil publishing house the site has 2 million monthly readers and an annual budget of around €2.7 million Reporterre currently has 27 permanent employees Reporterre has a very clearly defined editorial line: “We believe that the question of ecology is the key political issue of the early 21st century and cannot be reduced to questions of nature and pollution - even if we follow these vital issues closely and its situation is largely determined by social relations: it is therefore a political and social ecology that Reporterre presents and discusses.” Voxeurop: Reporterre was first created in 1989 The media and the people had realised that the environment was important We sold an average of 26,000 copies every month and ended up with 4,600 paying subscribers The problem was that we were severely undercapitalised and I became a journalist with lots of different media outlets before being hired by Le Monde in 1998 to cover the environment It was made possible by Voxeurop’s community High-quality reporting and translation comes at a cost To continue producing independent journalism Subscribe or Donate In 2007, I wrote “Comment les riches détruisent la planète” (How the Rich are Destroying the Earth The book explained the link between the social question and the ecological question and the extent to which they are inseparable learning how to write for the Internet and getting to grips with it as a tool when Le Monde censured me and there was a dispute for which people would be paid to produce content The advantage of the Internet is that it costs much less money than printing and distributing a printed newspaper and I was also giving talks on my book and asking people to pay not for me We started to get small grants from private foundations I was soon able to start paying a few freelancers and create a fixed-term contract for a journalist and a virtuous circle was immediately set in motion Your book – How the Rich are Destroying the Earth- has been translated into ten languages. Its comic book version, published in collaboration with the cartoonist Juan Mendez explores the relationship between the structural social inequalities of our societies and the climate crisis How the Rich are Destroying the Earth was a success and it’s still selling – we’re on to the fourth edition The book had a major impact on the understanding of how the ecological question and the social question are indissoluble At the time – I’m simplifying here – the left still saw the environment as a secondary issue and environmentalists ignored or underestimated the challenge of inequality There was a real need to articulate the relationship between the two issues Now I’m delighted that it’s become commonplace What remains important to explain today is that the issue of the rich and inequality is not just about Musk and the ultra-rich The issue involves all of Europe’s middle classes Between 40% and 60% of people – including me for example – in European countries are in the top 10% of the world’s richest It’s about reducing inequalities across the board Reporterre has what you might call a “strong” editorial line Would you say there is a link between political engagement and being a journalist A journalist is someone who wants to relate the world to his or her contemporaries And he or she will do so with the greatest possible honesty checking the facts and looking for contradictions a certain attitude is made explicit: “I look at the world I look at it from a certain point of view” Most journalists and media outlets do not clearly define their editorial line we define it by saying that the ecological issue is the key political issue of the 21st century That’s the basis on which we try to tell the story of what’s happening To make this clear, I’ll take the example of The Economist, which is an excellent newspaper, and which has had a clear editorial line since its inception: it considers liberalism a mode of organisation that allows society to be harmonious What’s the difference between this and political engagement Political engagement is when I assume a vision of the world and identify with a particular political doctrine or political party and from then on I influence society by spreading the ideas of that party or doctrine and trying to convince people With this comes the idea of assuming power and if the greens do things that don’t suit us And then there’s the question of independence This is a fundamental issue that guarantees the quality of the information: Reporterre is independent We are run by a not-for-profit association 98 percent of our income comes from readers There are no big donors who would give €10,000 or even €5,000 Does journalism have a specific responsibility in the current democratic crisis The responsibility of journalists lies in not having fought when billionaires wanted to buy their media in not having fought hard enough for their independence We ask them to respect the fundamental principles of journalism I would add this to the definition of journalism: to be a journalist is to be free and to work for freedom It is the journalist’s freedom that guarantees the quality of the information he or she produces but you know what position I’m coming from and you know that nobody is forcing me to tell you what I tell you This is the responsibility of journalists: the fight for their own freedom and the fight for freedom in general The price we should pay for the privilege of doing such a fascinating job is to fight for freedom and by extension for that of society as a whole There is also a structural impasse due to the crisis in the press It’s an economic system, yes. But there are courageous people, like Catherine André at Voxeurop, we at Reporterre, our colleagues at Arrêt sur Image and Mediapart.. and all the young journalists who are fighting to create independent media It may prove to be a source of inspiration for journalists in outlets that are enslaved to capital But we must continue to fight for our independence from shareholders Reporterre has a somewhat horizontal operational model that is not often found in the media There’s a board of directors who steer the whole thing and make sure that it’s independent and that it respects the focus on information about ecology And we’ve organised a “rotating editorial team”: every fortnight one of the five or six most experienced journalists takes it in turns to edit the paper on a daily basis and helps us to develop a culture of collective intelligence We have a much more horizontal way of working even if verticality is still sometimes necessary to resolve potential hesitancy All the more so at a time when there is a rise in the far right - not to say fascism - which wants the break-up of Europe and the reconstitution of communities that are separate from each other with a fantastical vision of Europe that is racist and closed to the outside world and I’m all too aware of the abominations that took place during the First and Second World Wars is to manage to live together while disagreeing and being different but at the same time being at peace and working together given all the temptations of fragmentation we also work towards the ideal of an ecological The problem is that Europe remains within the logic of neoliberalism and then there is its political translation Voxeurop depends on subscriptions and donations from its readers Glitz sheds light on the key players inside the luxury houses and within the sector's powerful families while keeping tabs on the vast ecosystem of service providers that make up the industry leaders' entourage scan the edition's headlines for the lowdown on our investigations We will not use your address for advertising or commercial purposes Discover our work by making use of the following possibilities: daily newsletters Do you want a free trial before subscribing Special offer: Only 11d and 8h to take advantage of it This offer is open to all new subscribers and runs until 16/05/2025 Glitz uses cookies to provide reliable and secure features, measure and analyse website traffic and provide support to the website users.Apart from those essential for the proper operation of the website, you can choose which cookies you accept to have stored on your device.Either “Accept and close” to agree to all cookies or go to “Manage cookies” to review your options. 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Have you tried going to latest or exploring a topic Essential digital access to quality FT journalism on any device Complete digital access to quality FT journalism with expert analysis from industry leaders Complete digital access to quality analysis and expert insights complemented with our award-winning Weekend Print edition Terms & Conditions apply Discover all the plans currently available in your country See why over a million readers pay to read the Financial Times Which language would you like to use this site in Responding to the arrests of lawyer Guy Hervé Kam on 29 May 2024 and of Lieutenant-Colonel Emmanuel Zoungrana earlier on the same day a week after a court ordered his provisional release Regional Director for West and Central Africa at Amnesty International “We condemn the arbitrary detention of Me Guy Hervé Kam Guy Hervé Kam was arrested and transferred to the custody of the gendarmerie on 29 May on new charges of conspiracy against the state We believe the accusations against him are unfounded and call for his immediate and unconditional release.” “We also condemn the enforced disappearance on the same day of Lieutenant-Colonel Zoungrana suspected to be agents of the Intelligence services while he was being driven to his home in Pabré. We call on the authorities to immediately release information about his whereabouts and his fate and if he is arbitrarily and secretly detained “These two arbitrary arrests happened shortly after courts ordered to release or provisionally release them Amnesty International is concerned by the lack of enforcement of judicial decisions and the continuation of arbitrary arrests of civil society members for the past year in Burkina Faso.” a lawyer and co-founder of the civil society movement Balai Citoyen has been accused with undermining state security He was arrested on 24 January 2024 and held incommunicado the Ouagadougou administrative Court of Appeal ordered his release former commander of the 12th infantry commando regiment of Ouahigouya was arrested in December 2021 and is accused of plotting against state security the Ouagadougou military court ordered his provisional release Together we can fight for human rights everywhere Your donation can transform the lives of millions If you are talented and passionate about human rights then Amnesty International wants to hear from you Bob W the tech-powered hospitality operator redefining the world of hotels and short-term rentals has today announced the appointment of Hervé Deligny to Chief Financial Officer (CFO) With over 25 years experience in financial leadership and scaling global businesses Deligny brings with him a wealth of expertise across the hospitality and real estate industries.At Bob W Delingy will be tasked with spearheading Bob W's continued growth across Europe and beyond Delingy started his career with PwC and spent more than 15 years at AccorHotels in Paris and London working across finance and real estate divisions He has since held CFO positions at notable hospitality brands such as Generator Hervé's appointment comes after a new joint venture between Bob W and Osborne+Co Investment Management (OCIM) launched a £120 million equity raise to acquire and repurpose hotel and office assets into high-quality short-term serviced apartments The joint venture plans to transform between 20 and 25 buildings across core European markets into 1,500 to 2,000 modern apartments and is targeting a GDV of £400 million for its initial development pipeline Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.