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In tonight's edition: Sudan's army says it has broken the siege of El-Obeid after regaining control of a key supply route following intense fighting with RSF paramilitaries. Also, Chad is carrying out its first national census in nearly two decades. Plus the 2026 Women's Africa Cup of Nations is now underway, with early matches already delivering excitement and surprises.
In tonight's edition: Sudan's army says it has broken the siege of El-Obeid after regaining control of a key supply route following intense fighting with RSF paramilitaries. Also, Chad is carrying out its first national census in nearly two decades. Plus the 2026 Women's Africa Cup of Nations is now underway, with early matches already delivering excitement and surprises.
In tonight's edition, Sudan's army says it has broken the siege of El Obeid after regaining control of a key supply route following intense fighting with the RSF. Also, Chad is carrying out its first national census in nearly two decades. And the 2026 Women's Africa Cup of Nations is underway, with early matches already delivering excitement and surprises.
Haiti's electoral council has scheduled the country's first presidential election in a decade for December 13, with a runoff planned for late February, after postponing an earlier timetable due to security fears. The vote remains contingent on improved security and funding, as widespread gang violence continues to cast doubt over whether the long-delayed electoral process can proceed as planned.
Eve Irvine is pleased to welcome Alexander Held, Senior Expert of the Resilience Programme for Integrated Fire Management. He reframes Europe's wildfire crisis by arguing that the flames themselves are not the central problem but rather ecological and governance failures. Held asserts that fires are not unforeseeable natural disasters, there have been decades of scientific warnings about the devas...
French firefighters are grappling for the first time with immense fire clouds, known as pyrocumulonimbus clouds, created by extreme wildfires, as they struggle to bring a forest inferno in southwest France under control. French wildfire researcher Jean-Baptiste Filippi says the phenomenon is yet another consequence of human-related climate change.
Jean-Emile Jammine is pleased to welcome Christopher Rassi, IFRC Chief of Staff and Under Secretary General for People and Strategy. He offers a rare on-the-ground perspective from southern Lebanon, to reveal the harrowing realities of the humanitarian crisis. He presents a compelling paradox: while ceasefires and pilot return zones might seem promising, recovery is not simply about returning peop...
French firefighters continued to battle wildfires in the country's southwest on Monday (July 27) as many hoped favourable weather conditions could ease the blazes that have scorched through more than 40,000 hectares of land. About 220,000 people, including tourists and local residents, have been evacuated in France due to the wildfires.
A dense blanket of smoke has hung over Bordeaux since last Friday as a massive wildfire burns its way through southwestern France. As the flames creep closer to the city, FRANCE 24 met residents stunned by the scale of the disaster and fearful of what comes next.
Saudi Arabia said it intercepted drones launched by Iran-backed militias from Iraq targeting oil facilities and Riyadh on Monday, while Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed separate drone strikes on the kingdom's oil infrastructure. The attacks mark a renewed escalation involving Saudi Arabia despite a recent lull in fighting between the United States and Iran.
Spain has two crucial days in front of it to bring wildfires under control before weather conditions worsen, authorities said Monday, as Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called on citizens to "exercise extreme caution" ahead of a new heatwave. FRANCE 24's Sarah Morris reports.
Raging wildfires have forced the evacuation of over 220,000 people from the Gironde department in southwestern France as the devastating flames continue to spread. Thousands of evacuees are now packed into emergency shelters, with no timeline given as to when they may be able to return as firefighters battle to bring the blaze under control. FRANCE 24's Carys Garland reports from Bordeaux.
France’s interior minister said Monday that a monster wildfire has stopped growing after forcing 220,000 people out of their homes in the country’s southwest but cautioned that it isn’t yet beaten. He spoke after French President Emmanuel Macron held a crisis meeting Monday focusing on the massive firefighting effort in the Gironde region and on wildfires elsewhere. FRANCE 24's International Affai...
While the focus still remains containing the forest fires blazing through the Gironde department, the challenge of rebuilding and replanting has already begun. And it is likely to be a costly one coming in, according to the government, at between 5 and 10 thousand euros a hectare.
France’s interior minister said Monday that a monster wildfire has stopped growing after forcing 220,000 people out of their homes in the country’s southwest but cautioned that it isn’t yet beaten. “It hasn’t progressed during the night,” the minister, Laurent Nuñez, said. “We have to remain very concentrated, very determined, to go at any moment.”
Honduran ex-president Juan Orlando Hernandez – who was serving a 45-year prison sentence in the United States for drug trafficking until President Donald Trump pardoned him last year – returned to his home country on Sunday.
UNESCO on Sunday added the iconic D-Day landing beaches in Normandy to its World Heritage List, marking the culmination of a project launched nearly two decades ago. Stretching for more than 80 kilometres (50 miles) of France's northwestern coast, Allied forces landed on the beaches on June 6, 1944 to fight a decisive battle to liberate Europe from Nazism and end World War II.
French police on Monday arrested a man following a knife attack on three women in the north of Paris.
#Spain faces two "decisive" days to contains monster #wildfires blazing near #Madrid and #Valencia said the country's interior minister, ahead of a new #heatwave that could complicate firefighting missions. Tens of thousands of people have already been forced to evacuate.
German police said a 21-year-old man with a record of Islamist extremist activity was shot dead on Sunday, a day after he allegedly drove a minivan into people near Berlin's Pride celebrations, killing one person. The ramming attack happened in the Tiergarten park near the Brandenburg Gate at about 10 pm on Saturday, not far from one of Europe's biggest annual LGBTQ celebrations, Christopher Stre...
Locals and volunteers facing France's worst wildfires in years are increasingly attempting to fight the blazes themselves before the arrival of overstretched, fatigued firefighters.
It is the night that is most gruelling for firefighters, that is when the Canadair aircraft cannot fly, due to low visibility. Everything happens on the ground, as close as possible to the blaze, sometimes with the help of local residents who brave the fire with meagre resources.
More than 42,000 hectares have now burned in Gironde, southwestern France as wildfires push closer to Bordeaux. Authorities say 240 homes have already been destroyed by the flames, which are now also threatening some of France's most sensitive defence and space industry sites.
Spanish authorities said they planned to start to allow some people evacuated from wildfires near Madrid to return on Monday, in a sign of progress in fighting some of the worst forest fires in the country's history. FRANCE 24's Sarah Morris reports from Madrid.
The fires tearing through forests in southwest France, around the region of Bordeaux, and in central Spain around the capital Madrid have been some of the worst in decades. Climate change which has brought successive heatwaves and a lack of rain has added fuel to the fires that are raging across parched grass and woodlands. With huge amounts of CO2 released and land left blackened the question is ...
Shelters in France and Spain on Monday overflowed with exhausted locals and holidaymakers forced to flee blazes so massive some were forming their own mini weather systems, as authorities warned a new heatwave was set to descend on parts of the region. The fires tearing through forests in southwest France, around the prized wine-making region of Bordeaux, and in central Spain around the capital Ma...
French President Emmanuel Macron called a crisis meeting Monday focusing on monster, uncontrolled wildfires that have forced more than 250,000 people to flee their homes, amid a first glimmer of hope that the spread of the largest blaze may have slowed. FRANCE 24's James André reports.
Wildfires were still burning in the provinces of Avila and Madrid, Spain, on Monday, July 27, with reports saying that the fires burning in Avila were the largest in the country’s recent history. Spain declared a national emergency on Friday due to the fires.
The United States paused its attacks on Iran for a second straight day Sunday and Tehran said it had done so too, as efforts continued to bring the countries back to negotiations on an interim ceasefire deal largely undermined by recent exchanges of fire. It was not clear why the US has paused after targeting Iranian coastal areas and infrastructure in a nearly two-week escalation sparked by Iran’...
