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Just a few days from the opening of the 2026 Olympic Youth Games in Senegal, the time has come to make the final adjustments. The capital Dakar has come to Olympic colours and is changing with the renovation of stadiums, roads, sanitation and lighting networks. The stakes lie in winning the first Olympic competition in history on the African continent.
This Tuesday marks the beginning of a new day of the high school movement in France, which calls for more resources in national education in France. A day with many challenges: mobilize students but also teachers and parents of students through demonstrations but also avoid overflows and violence. France 24 received Lili, a student at Lycée Diderot in Paris and Guillaume Escoffier, a professor of History and Geography in the same institution.
Donald Trump's vision of the North Atlantic, China's claim to Taiwan, Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine: are there any resurgence of imperialism, which was thought to be over with the decolonization and fall of the USSR? This is the observation of the recent book "World history of imperialisms from the 19th to the 21st centuries" (PUF editions) co-directed by Nicolas Beaupré and historian Florian Louis, guest of Au Cœur de l'Info
In Dakar, a new series of podcasts in French and Wolof wants to revive the history of Senegalese tirailers, these African soldiers having fought for France far from home. "Mémoires de tirailleurs" intends to convey a story still largely unknown.
From May-68 to today, through the movement against the Devaquet law, the students regularly shook power. And breakers have often been invited into their ranks. On Thursday, the situation also deteriorated sharply in the high school demonstrations, to the point that all prefects took orders prohibiting them from demonstrating this Friday around closed high schools.
From the Caesar from the best actress to the director, Hafsia Herzi continues to multiply the projects. Awarded in 2025 for her role in "Borgo", she also signed "La Petite Dernière", which won Nadia Melliti the Prix d'interpretation féminine in Cannes. Hafsia Herzi is today on the poster of "History of the Night", the new film by Léa Mysius, adapted from the novel by Laurent Mauvignier. She plays Nora, a mother whose past suddenly reappears when a birthday party changes.
Among these men and women expelled from the United States, some have been living on American soil for decades. They had worked there, paid their taxes and built their lives. From day to day, they are arrested, detained, and sent to countries they do not know, where they have no resources or clearly established status. Karina Chabour, journalist in the investigation "The Deportation Project" and Lise Kiennemann, journalist Les Observateurs à France 24
