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Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo said he hopes Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will rejoin the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) regional bloc, in an interview with FRANCE 24. The military councils’ decision of the three countries to withdraw from ECOWAS was a setback and the security situation has worsened since the departure of…
In an interview with FRANCE 24, Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo said he hopes Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will rejoin the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) regional bloc. The decision by the three countries’ military councils to withdraw from ECOWAS was a setback and the security situation has worsened since the departure of…
In tonight’s edition, at least 78 people died when an overcrowded boat capsized on Lake Kivu in eastern Congo on Thursday. Also, Kinshasa will start a vaccination campaign on Saturday, three days later than planned. And Zimbabwe’s government will this month pay an initial $20 million to foreign white and local black farmers who lost…
Hundreds of Tunisians demonstrated in the capital on Friday against President Kais Saied, two days before a presidential election that protesters claim is illegitimate. Since he came to power in 2021, most of Saied’s top critics, including a candidate in Sunday’s vote, have been jailed amid a crackdown on dissent. Source link
Argentine prosecutors investigating an aggravated rape case brought against two French international rugby players recommended on Friday that the case be dismissed after “a series of inconsistencies and contradictions” in the prosecution’s testimony. Source link
France’s public debt is very much in the spotlight. The country’s newly appointed prime minister, Michel Barnier, calls it a “Sword of Damocles” hanging over future generations. Indeed, for many countries, paying interest on the national debt deprives them of investing in education, health, research and so on. Similar discussions are taking place across the…
It has been a year since Israel suffered its worst terror attack ever, with Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups killing more than 1,000 Israelis and taking more than 250 hostage. Israel’s response has devastated Gaza, displacing the largest part of the population and killing more than 41,000 people, according to Gaza health authorities. Meanwhile,…
“Emmanuel Macron has very much followed the line we expected of him, defending the international organization of the French-speaking world (OIF), insisting that this language allowed people from all over the world to spread their art and their influence,” FRANCE said. 24 corresponding to Villers-Cotterets Carys Garland. “He also announced the creation of an international…
A court trying a French man who has pleaded guilty to enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his then-wife has decided to allow the public and press to be present when video evidence is shown. The ruling reverses a previous ruling that banned the broadcast of the images in public. Source link
French President Emmanuel Macron opens the two-day Francophonie summit on Friday, hoping to boost French influence in a conflict-ridden world. Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Déby, a French ally and regular visitor to Paris, will be a prominent guest, as will Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Watch Macron’s opening speech live on 24 FRANCE at 14:30…
