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OPA is the winner of the RFI 2026 Discovery Award. His music is a mixture of Afro-beats, soul, jazz and traditional Beninese sounds. He is currently on African tours with the French institutes.
#France: High school mobilization continues. Blockages of high schools and universities began on this fourth day of demonstrations. The Ministers of National Education and Higher Education receive the three main high school organizations during the day. Follow this fourth day of high school mobilization on #France24
In the Comoros, a new law, passed but not yet implemented, reserves certain small business activities only to Comorians by birth. The Malagasy community in the archipelago is deeply concerned. Maya-Anaïs Yataghène story.
In the Comoros, a new law reserves only certain small business activities to the native Comorians. Voted but not yet implemented, it raises the concern of the Malagasy community in the archipelago.
Russia carried out large-scale strikes on Ukraine on Wednesday, targeting energy infrastructure and housing and killing at least 20 people, according to a first assessment. Kiev accuses Moscow of intensifying attacks on the capital, which is targeted almost daily.
The beginning of a "black week"? Hundreds of high schools are again closed at least in part on Monday on the eve of a new day of mobilization, which unions are calling to join, and while calls for a hard block are flourishing on social networks.
The new political rendezvous of France 24, every Sunday evening at 9:10 pm. On the menu of this October 4th: the primary on the left, the Bardella affair and the mobilization of high school students. With Brice Soccol, political scientist and essayist, and Arnaud Benedetti, editor of the New Political Review.
New demonstrations for the right to housing are planned on Saturday in Madrid and in other Spanish cities, following the MPs' rejection of two texts pushed by the executive of Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to further protect tenants.
In Kenya, Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote is launching a new mega-refinery project, presented as a step towards Africa's self-sufficiency in fuel. But local communities are already challenging the project in court.
Arriving in Metz on Monday, Pope Leo XIV, in a speech at the Robert-Schuman congress centre, considered that one could not speak of Europe without mentioning Christianity, while denouncing the "unnecessary massacres" linked to the return of the war on Old Continent. The day then gave rise to a last lap in papamobile in the midst of thousands of faithful and to a mass at Saint-Étienne Cathedral, in the presence of Emmanuel Macron.
Armed men killed at least 27 people in two mass shootings in South Africa's two major cities, announced the police on Sunday in a new episode of violence in a country gangstered by crime.
In Ethiopia, seven armed groups from several parts of the country formed a coalition at the call of a rebel leader. They set themselves the goal of overthrowing Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and establishing a transitional government.
In Ethiopia, an Ethiopian rebel leader announced an alliance of seven armed groups, with the stated aim of overthrowing the ruling party of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and establishing a transitional government. As war rages in neighbouring Sudan, fears arise that these isolated armed conflicts in Ethiopia will degenerate into a regional war. Tom Canetti, France 24 correspondent in Addis Ababa.
Cuba suffers on Friday 18 September a further general power outage, the seventh since the beginning of the year, against the background of a serious fuel shortage on the communist island, under pressure from Washington.
A new species of wild feline has been discovered in Bolivia, a first in the world for more than a century, announced to the AFP one of the Bolivian scientists who participated in this discovery.
North Korea will continue to send its soldiers to fight in Russia's war, but only as long as it remains profitable, writes BBC Quentin Sommerville.
