Bakari Gueye

Bakari is a journalist from Mauretania, editor-in-chief for the news websites Initiatives News and Essada Echo, and director of the Mauretania section at the International Union of the Francophone Press (UPF). He studied French Literature and History, obtaining an MA degree in the latter. He is an expert on health and development and on security issues in the Sahel and Northwest Africa, as well as a political analyst. Over the course of two decades, Bakari worked in the editorial department of numerous newspapers, including Mauritanie Demain, Le Méhariste, and La Tribune; he was editor-in-chief at Le Divan, Nouakchott Info and Ich’har. He has earned recognition for reporting on numerous major international events.

My Areas of Interest:

Reproductive Health and the Environment

In Mauretania, breast cancer is one of the most common cancer types. Until only few years ago, this disease was little known and understood in the country and even equated with certain death. In my article, “Mauretania: Breast Cancer Management”, I shed light on the work of the National Oncology Office (OCO), the first centre of nuclear medicine in Mauretania. Opened in late 2014 with the support of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the centre is credited not only for making the treatment of breast cancer more widely available but also for demystifying the disease.

Here you can find his publications as part of the “Journalism and Science Project in North Africa and the Middle East”: https://www.essadafr.info/archives/6463

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