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Du 14 au 18 décembre 2015, l’Académie était présente en Tanzanie, à Kigoma, pour former 36 journalistes et blogueurs burundais. Alexandre Capron, journaliste pour le service des Observateurs, a animé un atelier autour des techniques de vérification sur internet.

As part of a project initiated by the French Embassy in Uzbekistan, the Académie organized between August 15 and 25 several conferences and workshops for the benefit of journalists from this region of Central Asia. Antoine Cormery went to Tashkent and Lake Charvak for a summer camp bringing together Uzbek journalists, while Poline Tchoubar, a journalist specializing in fact checking, went to Khirgizistan to lead training in another summer camp at Lake Issyk -Koul

From March 05 to 09, 2023, Fady Matar led a training course devoted to interview techniques for radio and television at the Ministry of Information of Kuwait. 9 journalists took part in this session provided under the MCD and RFI broadcasting agreement in this country.

Nayla Salibi, journalist specializing in new technologies and digital transformation at Monte Carlo Doualiya and Fady Matar, project manager at the France Media Monde Académie led two training sessions in Kuwait from December 4 to 8 as part of the RFI and MCD broadcasting contract in this country.

These two sessions brought together around twenty Kuwaiti journalists around two topics: radio and television interviews through digital platforms and applications and the skills of the versatile radio correspondent.

As part of RFI's broadcasting contract in Benin, the Académie conducted an audit of editorial content within ORTB as a prelude to a vast infrastructure modernization plan. Thierry Fanchon, Technical and Information Systems Director of FMM, Assiya Hamza, Deputy Editor-in-Chief for New Media at France 24 and Antoine Cormery, Director of the Académie went to Cotonou from July 4 to 6 to meet the TV teams, radio, web, social networks and technique of the Beninese public group.

From March 8 to March 10 2022, Nayla Salibi a multimedia journalist in Monte Carlo Doualiya, led an online training in writing for the web.

A total of 9 Kuwaiti journalists attended this session organized under MCD's frequency modulation broadcasting contract in this country (107.3 FM).

A second consulting session was held between France Médias Monde and the Tunisian public television network (ETT) on December 8, 2021. The meeting co-chaired by Académie Director Antoine Cormery and ETT’s Awatef Dali, focused on validating the program for the upcoming six months of the joint European-Tunisian project that seeks to modernize ETT.
The Académie organized a training session in sports coverage from 21 November to 2 December 2021. France 24’s sports journalist Selina Sykes supervised the training of a dozen radio and television journalists of the Qatar Media Corporation. This year’s training aimed to better prepare the journalists ahead of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, the first such tournament in the region.  
The Académie hosted five Iraqi journalists from the Iraqi Media Network (IMN) for a two-week training in Paris between October 31 and November 13 2021. In partnership with the French Embassy in Baghdad, France 24’s reporter Mayssa Awad and Académie’s Van Meguerditchian trained the journalists in live stand-up, reporting and mobile journalism. 
The Académie returned to Botswana for a two-week training of BTV journalists in Gaborone. France 24’s Mark Owen supervised the training on news presentation and stand up. The training took place between 11 and 22 October 2021 as part of an agreement between France 24 English and Botswana.