In tonight’s edition, the Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye takes the helm of ECOWAS. Also, in Nigeria nearly 19 million Nigerian children are out of school, with the threat of kidnapping keeping many classrooms empty. And Tangier is celebrating the art of visual storytelling with the International Photography Festival. Source link
Spain’s newly crowned World Cup champions were welcomed by King Felipe VI and Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. Source link
Mexican drug trafficker Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Tuesday for co-founding and leading the notorious Sinaloa Cartel. Zambada was one of the most prominent Mexican drug traffickers to face sentencing in a United States court since Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán was sentenced to life … Read more
Speaking with FRANCE 24’s Sharon Gaffney, Martin Farr, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary British History at Newcastle University, explains that “the Labor Party members and its MPs think that it’s their responsibility to prevent” the rise to power of right-wing populist party Reform UK, and that has motivated the decision to replace Keir Starmer with Andy … Read more
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Monday visited Algeria for the first time in four years in a bid to mend diplomatic ties between the two countries after they were frayed by a row over Western Sahara. In 2022, Madrid abandoned its neutrality stance over the disputed territory and backed Morocco’s sovereignty claim, angering Algiers. … Read more
The Senegalese government on Monday made a U-turn, announcing it would back former president Macky Sall’s candidacy to replace UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres when his term expires. The government had previously declined to throw its weight behind Sall, whom it accused of deadly political repression while in office, but reversed course after he paid the … Read more
Now more than four years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Black Sea has become one of Europe’s key security borders. And yet, it is currently “pretty much empty of warships,” Thomas de Waal, a senior fellow at Carnegie Europe, told DW. “It’s a bit of a contradiction,” he said. To understand this paradox, … Read more
AliExpress will appeal the fine after European Union (EU) regulators found shortcomings in its efforts to curb illegal, unsafe and counterfeit goods. AliExpress, the biggest Chinese e-commerce platform, has been fined €550 million ($629 million) in the European Union for failing to tackle the sale of illegal, unsafe and counterfeit products. “The proliferation of counterfeit … Read more
François Picard is pleased to welcome Mary Honeyball, former Labor Member of the European Parliament from 2000 to 2019 representing London. She offers a cautiously optimistic assessment of the arrival of Andy Burnham to 10 Downing Street. She frames the moment less as a potential political reset after years of institutional fatigue. Mary Honeyball argues … Read more
The death of Kevin Keegan, considered one of the greatest football players of his generation, was announced in a statement issued by his family on Monday. “It is with great sadness that we announce that Kevin Keegan has passed away at the age of 75,” the statement said. “Kevin was battling cancer and was surrounded … Read more