Jean-Michel Marin, president of the Société Française de Statistique (SFDS), Olivier Goubet, president of the Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (SMAI), Fabien Durand, president of the Société Mathématique de France (SMF), are pleased to announce that the Ibni Oumar Mahamat Saleh Prize 2020 has been awarded to Zobo Vincent de Paul Ablé & Audace Dossou-Olory.