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2023 Jeux de la Francophonie, the Glossary

The 2023 Jeux de la Francophonie, also known as IXieme Jeux de la Francophonie (French for 9th Francophone Games), informally Kinshasa 2023 (Kinsásá 2023), were a multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 6, 2023, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.^[1]

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Achraf Ed Doghmy

Achraf Ed Doghmy (born 11 November 1999) is a Moroccan cyclist, who currently rides for amateur team Kawkab AC Marrakech.

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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.

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Athletics at the 2023 Jeux de la Francophonie

The athletics competition at the 2023 Jeux de la Francophonie took place in Stade des Martyrs in Kinshasa from 31 July to 4 August 2023. 2023 Jeux de la Francophonie and athletics at the 2023 Jeux de la Francophonie are international sports competitions hosted by the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Aziza Chakir

Aziza Chakir (born 19 May 1998) is a Moroccan judoka.

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Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop.

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Berthe Etane Ngolle

Berthe Emillene Etane Ngolle (born 19 May 1995) is a Cameroonian freestyle wrestler.

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Caroline St-Hilaire

Caroline St-Hilaire (born November 16, 1969, in Longueuil, Quebec) is a Canadian politician, who served as Mayor of Longueuil under the banner of Action Longueuil from November 10, 2009, to November 5, 2017.

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Cătălina Axente

Cătălina Axente is a Romanian freestyle wrestler.

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Crandall University

Crandall University is a Baptist Christian liberal arts university located in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.

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Croix-Bleue Medavie Stadium

Croix-Bleue Medavie Stadium (Stade Croix-Bleue Medavie), formerly Moncton Stadium (Stade Moncton), is a track and field stadium on the campus of the Université de Moncton in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, built to host the IAAF 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics.

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Cycle sport

Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles.

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Dance

Dance is an art form, often classified as a sport, consisting of sequences of body movements with aesthetic and often symbolic value, either improvised or purposefully selected.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Zaire, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.

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Dieppe, New Brunswick

Dieppe is a city in the Canadian maritime province of New Brunswick.

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Digital art

Digital art refers to any artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as part of the creative or presentation process.

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Eduard Ionescu

Andrei Eduard Ionescu is a Romanian table tennis player.

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Fadwa Garci

Fadwa Garci (born 6 February 2002) is a Tunisian table tennis player.

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Faten Hammami

Faten Hammami is a Tunisian freestyle wrestler.

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Félix Tshisekedi

Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo (born 13 June 1963) is a Congolese politician who has been the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 24 January 2019.

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Folk dance

A folk dance is a dance that reflects the life of the people of a certain country or region.

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The football tournament at the 2023 Jeux de la Francophonie took place from 28 July to 6 August 2023 in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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In Belgium, the French Community (Communauté française) refers to one of the three constituent constitutional linguistic communities.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Guadeloupe

Guadeloupe (Gwadloup) is an overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean.

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Hip hop dance

Hip hop dance is a range of street dance styles primarily performed to hip hop music or that have evolved as part of hip hop culture.

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Hrachya Margaryan

Hrachya Muradi Margaryan (Հրաչյա Մուրադի Մարգարյան, November 23, 1999), Artashat, Armenia), Armenian wrestler, member of the Armenian freestyle wrestling team European youth champion, master of sports international․.

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Institut Français

The Institut Français (French capitalization, Institut français; "French institute") is a French public industrial and commercial organization (EPIC).

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Judo

is an unarmed modern Japanese martial art, combat sport, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.

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Juggling

Juggling is a physical skill, performed by a juggler, involving the manipulation of objects for recreation, entertainment, art or sport.

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Kinshasa

Kinshasa (Kinsásá), formerly named Léopoldville until June 30, 1966, is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Limete Tower

The Limete Tower (also known as Tour de l'Échangeur; "Interchange Tower" or Tour des Héros nationaux du Congo; "Tower of the National Heroes of Congo") is a tower located in the commune of Limete in Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Literature

Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, plays, and poems.

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Louise Mushikiwabo

Louise Mushikiwabo (born 22 May 1961) is the fourth and current Secretary General of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie.

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Moncton

Moncton is the most populous city in the Canadian province of New Brunswick.

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Mount Allison University

Mount Allison University (also Mount A or MtA) is a Canadian primarily undergraduate liberal arts university located in Sackville, New Brunswick, founded in 1839.

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National Museum of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The National Museum of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Musée national de la République démocratique du Congo, or MNRDC) is a museum for the cultural history of the numerous ethnic groups and historical epochs of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the capital Kinshasa.

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New Brunswick

New Brunswick (Nouveau-Brunswick) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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New Brunswick Community College (NBCC) is a community college located throughout various locations in New Brunswick, Canada including Moncton, Miramichi, Fredericton (its head office), Saint John, St. Andrews, and Woodstock.

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Organisation internationale de la Francophonie

The Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF; sometimes shortened to the Francophonie, La Francophonie, sometimes also called International Organisation of italic in English) is an international organization representing countries and regions where French is a lingua franca or customary language, where a significant proportion of the population are francophones (French speakers), or where there is a notable affiliation with French culture.

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Painting

Painting is a visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support").

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Palais du Peuple (Kinshasa)

The People's Palace or Palace of the People (Palais du Peuple) is the seat of the National Assembly and the Senate in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly Zaire.

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Photography

Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film.

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Poetry

Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings.

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Puppetry

Puppetry is a form of theatre or performance that involves the manipulation of puppets – inanimate objects, often resembling some type of human or animal figure, that are animated or manipulated by a human called a puppeteer.

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Quebec

QuebecAccording to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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Sculpture

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.

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Sherbrooke

Sherbrooke is a city in southern Quebec, Canada.

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Siwar Bousetta

Siwar Bousetta (سوار بوستّة, born 23 July 1999), also spelled Bouseta, is a Tunisian freestyle wrestler.

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Song

A song is a musical composition performed by the human voice.

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Sport of athletics

Athletics is a group of sporting events that involves competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking.

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Stade des Martyrs

The Stade des Martyrs de la Pentecôte (formerly known as Stade Kamanyola), or commonly referred to as the Stade des Martyrs, is the national stadium of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, located in the Kinshasa commune of the capital Kinshasa. 2023 Jeux de la Francophonie and stade des Martyrs are sport in Kinshasa.

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Stade Tata Raphaël

Stade Tata Raphaël (Father Raphael Stadium) is a multi-purpose stadium in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. 2023 Jeux de la Francophonie and stade Tata Raphaël are sport in Kinshasa.

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Storytelling

Storytelling is the social and cultural activity of sharing stories, sometimes with improvisation, theatrics or embellishment.

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Table tennis

Table tennis (also known as ping-pong or whiff-whaff) is a racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary table, rather than the court on which players stand.

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Université de Moncton

The Université de Moncton is a Canadian francophone university in New Brunswick.

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Wrestling

Wrestling is a martial art and combat sport that involves grappling with an opponent and striving to obtain a position of advantage through different throws or techniques, within a given ruleset.

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2017 Jeux de la Francophonie

The 2017 Jeux de la Francophonie, also known as VIIIèmes Jeux de la Francophonie (French for 8th Francophone Games), informally known as Abidjan 2017, took place in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, from July 21–30. 2023 Jeux de la Francophonie and 2017 Jeux de la Francophonie are Jeux de la Francophonie.

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2020 Summer Olympics

The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July 2021.

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2027 Jeux de la Francophonie

The 2027 Jeux de la Francophonie, also known as Xes Jeux de la Francophonie (French for 10th Francophone Games), informally Yerevan 2027 (Erevan 2027), is a planned edition of the Jeux de la Francophonie to be held in Yerevan, Armenia in 2027. 2023 Jeux de la Francophonie and 2027 Jeux de la Francophonie are Jeux de la Francophonie.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Jeux_de_la_Francophonie

Also known as 2021 Jeux de la Francophonie, 2022 Jeux de la Francophonie, 2023 Francophone Games.

, Stade des Martyrs, Stade Tata Raphaël, Storytelling, Table tennis, Université de Moncton, Wrestling, 2017 Jeux de la Francophonie, 2020 Summer Olympics, 2027 Jeux de la Francophonie.

2023 Jeux de la Francophonie, the Glossary

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See also

2023 in multi-sport events

21st century in Kinshasa

August 2023 sports events in Africa

International sports competitions hosted by the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Jeux de la Francophonie

July 2023 sports events in Africa

Sport in Kinshasa

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