Algeria will send army units to Niger to protect energy and economic interests, according to a statement from the presidency on Monday (October 26). Algeria’s Parliament held an emergency vote on Sunday on what would be Algeria’s first such foreign mission since 1973.
A Dutch broadcaster reverses a decision to take part, citing “sensitivities” over Israel’s participation.
In France, after weeks of student unrest, the government announced new school measures. Student union leaders said it’s a first step but vowed to keep mobilising as they expected further proposals.
Six French men were sentenced to life in prison by an Iraqi court on Tuesday for membership of the Islamic State (IS) group, according to a source. They are among 47 French IS group suspects transferred from detention facilities in Syria to Iraq last year under an arrangement coordinated by US forces and Iraqi authorities.
As Israelis head to the polls this Tuesday, among those voting are 2 million Palestinian citizens of Israel, some of whom live in mixed Jewish-Arab towns. One of them, Lod, has long been seen as symbolic of this coexistence. However in 2021 the town was the scene of violent clashes, whose consequences are still being…
Sudan’s war is spilling over into Chad. A drone strike killed at least four people last week in the border town of Bamina, and hundreds of thousands of Sudanese refugees have crossed over in search of safety. Many of those who survived the massacre in El Fasher are still deeply traumatised. FRANCE 24’s correspondent Harold…
The elections – the first since the Hamas-led attacks on Israel and the wars which followed – are widely seen as a referendum on Benjamin Netanyahu.
More than 500 soldiers have been sent to deal with anti-migrant protests in South Africa, the country’s government has said.
President has taken an axe to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, stalling climate research on and response to extreme weather eventsSweeping cuts to the premier US climate agency under Donald Trump have severely hampered the country’s capacity to forecast, research and respond to extreme weather events, former government officials and scientists have warned, as the…
It is essential not just to fund the public goods the nation needs, it is indispensable to restore a sense of fairnessMoney doesn’t buy happiness, we’re told. Even some economists agree. The Nobel Prize-winning economists, Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton, once proposed that rising income increased people’s emotional wellbeing only up to a ceiling of…