{"id":218316,"date":"2025-12-28T03:16:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T01:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/africa-all-the-comforts-you-find-in-paris-the-man-helping-african-repats-head-home\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T03:16:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T01:16:51","slug":"africa-all-the-comforts-you-find-in-paris-the-man-helping-african-repats-head-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/africa-all-the-comforts-you-find-in-paris-the-man-helping-african-repats-head-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: &#8216;All the Comforts You Find in Paris&#8217; &#8211; the Man Helping African &#8216;Repats&#8217; Head Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\"><em> Abidjan, C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire &#8211; Many young Africans who have studied in Europe are turning the dream of returning home to build a career or start a business into a reality. RFI spoke to Pierre Djemis, who organises forums in Abidjan and Paris to connect these repatriates with new opportunities, and with each other. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">They are called &#8220;repats&#8221;, short for &#8220;repatriates&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/tag\/youth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">young people<\/a> who left their African homes, be they in Gabon, Cameroon, Congo or C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire, to chase a better education or business&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512270209.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abidjan, C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire &#8211; Many young Africans who have studied in Europe are turning the dream of returning home to build a career or start a business into a reality. RFI spoke to Pierre Djemis, who organises forums in Abidjan and Paris to connect these repatriates with new opportunities, and with each other. They are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":218317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,4380,20891,6183,6555,5171,10633,8849,1218,6867,257,15620,53255,254],"class_list":["post-218316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-comforts","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-find","tag-helping","tag-home","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-man","tag-news","tag-paris","tag-repats","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}