France: The Asylum Application of Central African Whistleblower Ephrem Yalike Has Been Rejected
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From 2019 to 2022, Ephrem Yalike-Ngonzo participated in disinformation campaigns on behalf of the Russian private security group Wagner in the Central African Republic. He was able to join France in 2024 with the support of the French authorities.
Journalist Ephrem Yalike has just had his asylum application rejected by the French authorities. An appeal will be filed today. (François Mazet)
A journalist in the Central African Republic, the whistleblower saw his application for asylum rejected by the administration on 8 July, even though he had been allowed to enter France in 2024 after Emmanuel Macron himself intervened.
The application for asylum of Ephrem Yalike-Ngonzo, a Central African journalist responsible for revealing the Wagner Group's propaganda scheme in the Central African Republic (RCA), was rejected by the French authorities. The Platform for the Protection of Alert Launchers in Africa (PPLAAF) announced on Thursday 9 July that it had filed an appeal against this decision, which it considered to be contrary to France's commitments. According to PPL…
France has denied safe haven to a CD journalist, Efrem Yalike, whose testimony helped to expose the work of the Russian propaganda and disinformation network in Africa, now facing deportation to his home country, where his former employers associated with MER Wagner still have great influence, the Human Rights Organization Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa (PPLAAF), which is accompanying the Yalique case, has called the decision of th…
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