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Just days before the Islamic festival of Tabaski, livestock markets in Abidjan are slowing down. Burkina Faso and Mali have suspended exports, while insecurity and the closure of Sahel trade corridors are disrupting traditional supply routes. The result: sheep are becoming scarce and prices are soaring across Abidjan’s markets. Our team on the ground reports.
NASA is ordering landers, rovers and drones for a sprawling moon base, less than two months after the Artemis II's record-breaking lunar flyaround. The space agency outlined the first phase of its moon base plans on Tuesday, awarding hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to four US companies. And the Americans are not alone. On Sunday, the Chinese space agency launched Shenzhou-23 which wil...
Critic Dheepthika Laurent unpacks this month's TV releases, including the gripping Soviet space race drama told from the Russian side, "Star City", the return of the outrageously scandalous 1980s hit "Rivals" and Nicolas Cage stepping into his very first TV role in "Spider Noir".
In this edition of French Connections, Genie Godula and Florence Villeminot continue their tour of Paris with a stop in the most underrated district of the capital: the 14th arrondissement. Calm and residential, most tourists won't make the journey to this southern edge of the Left Bank, but it's definitely worth a trip if you want a delightful taste of behind-the-scenes Paris. Here you'll find a ...
A world-renowned Irish journalist and author whose reporting from conflict zones and migration routes has earned international recognition has told FRANCE 24 that in her reporting she sees love every day, and that journalists don't always convey that. Sally Hayden is a winner of the Orwell Prize, and in her new book "This is Also a Love Story" she turns away from the headlines and statistics to fo...
The woman whose song was at the heart of the Arab Spring has told FRANCE 24 that even 15 years later she looks back on her role, and the role of the protesters with admiration. Tunisian-American artist Emel Mathlouthi's song Kelmti Horra, or "My Word is Free", became something of an anthem at the time as uprisings against the authorities sprang up in one county after another. This weekend she's in...
A massive fireball was seen rising into the air Thursday as heavy Israeli strikes pounded Lebanon's southern coastal city of Tyre. The strikes, which come as Muslims celebrate the holiday of Eid al-Adha, followed a warning by Israel that it had declared a new swathe of southern Lebanon a combat zone and told residents to evacuate.
PRESS REVIEW – Thursday, May 28, 2026: Papers discuss whether Russia could potentially invade Europe. But first, Spanish front pages cover the latest developments in the political corruption scandal that has hit the Socialist Party. Elsewhere, US President Donald Trump's renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool continues to make headlines. Finally, some dogs are fashionable, but one pup ...
Norway’s northern Lofoten Islands are attracting an increasing number of tourists, raising concerns about the environmental impact. To help document these effects, Norwegian researchers have launched a new project that utilises satellite images.
In less than one week, Ethiopians will head to the polls for the country's general elections. Prime minister Abiy Ahmed and the ruling Prosperity Party are a shoo-in to be re-elected. But opposition figures say that the necessary pre-conditions for a democratic vote are not in place. FRANCE 24's correspondent Tom Canetti attended the party’s last political campaign before next week's vote.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard targeted a US airbase on Thursday after the US military carried out what a Washington official said were strikes on an Iranian drone operation near the Strait of Hormuz, hours after President Donald Trump rejected a report he was close to a compromise deal with Tehran. The escalation in hostilities highlighted threats to the tenuous ceasefire between the US and Iran th...
President Rodrigo Paz warned Wednesday that Bolivia was at a "breaking point" after nearly a month of protests that have caused shortages of food, fuel and life-saving medicine. The US-backed Paz, who took office six months ago amid the worst economic crisis here in four decades, is battling a groundswell of fury over his center-right policies. The political capital La Paz has been besieged by low...
The UN climate chief said Wednesday that a record-breaking early heatwave scorching a swathe of western Europe was "a brutal reminder of the spiraling impacts of the climate crisis". Britain and France have reported their hottest ever May days this week as a "heat dome" brought sizzling temperatures more typical of midsummer to western Europe. With temperatures remaining stubbornly above 30C acros...
It's a 63 kilometre railway running between two villages in the Catalan region of the French Pyrenees, offering spectacular views along the way. France's famous "Yellow train" is now back in service after being shut down for months because of a landslide. The more than century old rail line attracts thousands of tourists each year, carrying passengers on a nostalgic journey through the mountains.
Ahead of the general elections in Ethiopia that will take place on Monday, an opposition party has called for a nationwide protest, challenging what it calls an undemocratic vote. But the national election board has not approved the protest to take place. Tensions are high in the lead up to the vote, and opposition parties say they are afraid for their safety. FRANCE 24’s Tom Canetti reports from ...
Benchmark prices for crude oil rose on Thursday as Iran said it targeted a US airbase in response to American air strikes. Commercial traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, which had slightly ticked up in previous days, dwindled down to almost nothing again. Also in this edition: Australia takes legal action against US consumer goods giant 3M over "forever chemicals" in firefighting foam. Plus Braz...
Muslims in the eastern Congolese city of Bunia marked Eid on May 27, under strict hygiene measures, with worshippers wearing masks, using hand sanitiser and praying in smaller gatherings as authorities sought to curb the spread of Ebola. The celebrations come as the Democratic Republic of Congo battles a worsening outbreak that the World Health Organization says includes more than 900 suspected ca...
Norway will open talks with France on joining its nuclear umbrella, French President Emmanuel Macron and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said on Wednesday, reflecting growing European concerns about relying on the United States for security. The move signals a shift by Norway, long a staunch Atlanticist that has relied heavily on NATO and the US nuclear umbrella, towards closer defen...
France is Thursday expected to move towards repealing outdated legislation that defines people enslaved in its colonies as "moveable goods", in a symbolic move as the country grapples with its colonial legacy. The French were the third largest slave traders in Europe, after the British and the Portuguese. France abolished enslaving humans more than 170 years ago, and in 2001 recognised slavery and...
Gisèle Pelicot has become a household name since the world learned of the unimaginable ordeal she suffered at the hands of her husband. What many of us might be shocked to discover is that there are still many websites where men exchange tips and ideas on how to drug women so they can rape them in their sleep. That is the subject of a new documentary made by CNN's Saskya Vandoorne. She joined us o...
French President Emmanuel Macron gave the country's plans to move away from fossil fuels another boost on Tuesday, announcing big private investments, including a €1 billion EV project from Stellantis. Some 200 companies signed onto a national pact to join the government's efforts to double the share of electricity in the country's energy mix to 60 percent by 2030. Plus, BP has fired its chairman ...
The United States struck southern Iran on Thursday, drawing retaliation from Tehran against a US military base, in the most serious clashes since an April ceasefire began. The fighting, which drew in US ally Kuwait, threatened to jettison a fragile diplomatic push to forge a peace agreement and open the Strait of Hormuz, which has become a key point of contention in efforts to formally end the war...
The Israeli military said on Thursday it had begun new strikes on Hezbollah infrastructure around the southern Lebanese city of Tyre after issuing an evacuation warning to its residents. The sweeping warning – the first of its kind since an April 17 ceasefire – came as many Lebanese tried to celebrate the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. FRANCE 24's Noga Tarnopolsky reports from Jerusalem.
Israel said on Wednesday it had killed the new head of Hamas's armed wing in Gaza, Mohammed Odeh, after killing his predecessor earlier this month despite an ongoing ceasefire. Since Hamas's October 2023 attack, Israel has systematically targeted the group's leaders, both in Gaza and across the region. Gaza remains gripped by daily violence, with both the Israeli military and Hamas accusing one an...
Squeezed onto the back of a motorcycle, clearly exhausted, a young woman arrived at Rwampara hospital, where overwhelmed health workers have found themselves on the front line of a deadly Ebola outbreak. The town in the violence-hit east of the Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the centres of a recent flare-up in cases of the highly contagious disease. Since the current outbreak was declared ...
Almost 300 Ghanaian nationals returned home on Wednesday after waves of anti-immigrant protests in South Africa heightened safety concerns. The group, which included children, boarded a flight from Johannesburg to Accra in what authorities described as a voluntary repatriation process for Ghanaian citizens who say they no longer feel safe. FRANCE 24's Justice Baidoo reports.
PRESS REVIEW – Wednesday, May 27, 2026: First, US President Donald Trump's attempts at finding a deal with Iran are under a lot of scrutiny. Next, the EU is asked to consider the environmental impact of mega data centres, as locals fight back against projects which might harm the environment. Also, a new French tennis star features on the front page of L'Equipe. Finally, an age-old question is fin...
French lawmakers are set to vote on Thursday to repeal the Code Noir, a law that regulated slavery in the French colonies which was never formally repealed even after the abolition of slavery in 1848. The vote reopens a debate around reparations in a country that has yet to fully come to terms with its history of colonialism.
Efforts to expand tennis in France have seen hard courts gradually replace clay in the land of Roland Garros, leaving the iconic slippery surface to a select few – and, according to some, contributing to the home players’ miserable run at the Paris Grand Slam tournament.
