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Marches, rallies and citizen actions are organised this Saturday throughout France to demand emergency measures in the face of climate change. To talk about it, France 24 guest is Margot Jaymond, advocate for Amnesty International France.
On his second day of visit to Paris, Pope Leo XIV is expected at the Catholic Institute. At the heart of this exchange: the rise of baptisms among adolescents and young adults, in a France marked by secularization. France 24 provided an update with Constance Colonna Cesari, a journalist specializing in the papacy.
Senegal conceded the draw against Mozambique on Friday at Maputo's Zimpeto stadium for the first day of Group J counting for the CAN 2027 playoffs. For Patrick Vieira's premiere on the Senegalese bench, the Lions of the Teranga did not manage to get off the scoreboard, letting the Mambas finally return to the score.
For the first time in 130 years of the history of the modern Olympic Games, an Olympic event will take place on the African continent. With the Dakar 2026 Olympics, Senegal will host the first Olympic sporting event in Africa.
For the moment, Russia does not seem ready to end the war in Ukraine. News hits on Wednesday, 23 September against service stations in Kiev killing two people. While the capital faces daily attacks, the school continues for children who live at the rate of bombs.
For the first time in nearly half a century, American weapons were delivered to Guatemalan soil on Monday, 21 September. The fourteen thousand modern weapons units worth about five million dollars are a sign of a profound change in the relationship between the two countries. The end of an old 1978 embargo, based on the failure to respect human rights.
Paramount Skydance has reached an amicable agreement, which still needs to be approved by a California federal judge, in order to obtain the abandonment of the proceedings brought by twelve US states challenging the acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery. In particular, the group is committed to increasing its investment in film production and to creating a council on editorial independence of news channels.
As part of the Aukus alliance between Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom, London and Washington fired a torpedo from an unmanned submarine vessel last week in British waters. A "significant breakthrough for Euro-Atlantic security", the British government welcomes Monday.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz was under pressure on Monday 21 September to recover after regional electoral defeats against the radical left and the extreme right, the latter even predicting his departure before the end of the year. In the north-east of the country, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, its Conservative party, the CDU, was eliminated from the assembly, failing to achieve the elimination score of 5%, a first for a regional state in the history of the country since 1945. For further analysis, Paul Maurice, Secretary General of the Franco-German Relations Studies Committee at IFRI,
France 24 investigated with Forbidden Stories the situation of several African migrants welcomed in a Yaoundé centre, after their expulsion by the Trump administration, under a secret agreement negotiated between the leaders of the two countries. To learn more about this investigation, Léa Peruchon, investigative journalist at Forbidden Stories, was the guest of FRANCE 24.
For his debut at the head of the Teranga Lions, Patrick Vieira called 29 players for the next CAN 2027 playoffs. Sadio Mané, a package due to a physical problem, is absent from this first selection, which includes the new defender Malang Sarr.
Israel enters the election campaign in a context of multiple wars and with an outgoing Prime Minister and candidate who insists first on security but does not intend to be held accountable. To discuss this topic, our guest: David Khalfa, co-director of the Middle East Observatory at the Jean-Jaurès Foundation and co-founder of the Atlantic Middle East Forum.
In Russia, from Friday onwards, voters are called upon to renew the lower house of Parliament, the Duma. This is the first election of the institution since the beginning of the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. However, the only party opposed to the war, Iabloko, was not allowed to present its list.
