Mame Diarra Diop

Mame Diarra Diop is a journalist-producer at Mikado FM, the United Nations Radio in Mali, where she presents news and has been coordinating editorial staff since 2016. With more than fifteen years of professional experience, she collaborated with international media such as RFI, Afrik.com, and Africa International before taking the editorial direction of the online news daily JournalduMali.com from 2010 to 2016. She graduated with a degree in modern literature from the University Paris IV-Sorbonne, and she also holds a master's in alternation, specialization media management from the School of Journalism of Lille (ESJ). In 2014, she was selected to cover the United States-Africa Summit that brought together nearly fifty African heads of state around President Obama in Washington, DC. Then, in 2015, she took part in the program of International Visitors of the United States Embassy in Mali (IVLP) on the theme: Broadcast Journalism in the US. Committed to the cause of the press and also the promotion of women in the media, Diop was also the president of the Association of Publishers and Professionals of the Press on Line (APPEL MALI), which aims to support and promote online media in Mali, from 2016 to 2019.