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African Union launches continent's first credit rating agency

The African Union launched the continent's first credit rating agency on Wednesday, seeking to provide an alternative to the "big three" global ratings agencies as debt burdens weigh on many African economies. The Africa Credit Rating Agency (AfCRA) — the creation of which African leaders endorsed in 2018 — was ​launched at a ceremony ‌attended by African officials in Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius, where it will be based.

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DR Congo peace process: African Union facilitators visiting Goma

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, members of the panel of African Union facilitators have just completed their visit to Goma, the eastern city of the country controlled by AFC-M23, supported by Rwanda. This visit comes at a time when peace processes appear to be stalled and fighting continues on the ground. Accuracy of Aurélie Bazzara-Kibangula from Kinshasa.

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Russia: suspicions of plague contaminate social networks

Russia is called upon by WHO, the European Union and the United States to increase transparency after the death of a laboratory technician in Siberia. Daria Shipilova, who worked at the Irkutsk pest control institute, died of pneumonia of unknown origin. Between the versions of some media and the denial of the authorities, the vagueness persists and maintains rumours and misinformation.

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Suspect of plague in Russia: a possible second suspicious case, Moscow called for more transparency

On Wednesday, the World Health Organization, the United States and the European Union called on Russia to be more transparent after the death of a laboratory worker working at a pestilence study institute, while reports point to a possible second suspicious case. "No health problems related to infectious pathology have been detected," the Russian public health agency said.

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High school live mobilization: teachers call for strike, blockages in decline

In the wake of a massive mobilization, the High School Union and the Student Union are calling for further blockages and processions on Thursday. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez announced Wednesday to suspend the use of deafening grenades in the context of high school demonstrations. According to his ministry, the high school mobilization "is in sharp decline" Wednesday at midday. Follow our direct.

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High School Mobilization: "As long as our demands are not heard, the movement will continue"

This Tuesday is a crucial day for the continuation of the high school movement that began three weeks ago in France. Demonstrations are announced throughout the country, during which its students will be joined by an inter-union of teachers. They demand better human and material means to work. "As long as our demands are not listened to, the movement will continue," says Marius Mesnil, co-secretary general of the High School Union.

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Germany: Stolpersteines banned, paved for Nazi victims

The city of Heidenau, in the eastern centre of Germany, approved a motion by the extreme right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) banning the planned installation of Stolpersteine, these cobbles of memory paying tribute to the victims of Nazism. A decision that provokes an outcry.

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Heat, fires, drought: what lessons for the EU? Hottest European Summer

Europe was not spared by the heat wave. August 2026 was the warmest month ever measured, and Europe as a whole experienced the worst summer in its history: 2.7°C more than normal season. The result is a record drought that continues in September. In the summer peak, two thirds of EU territory were on alert, making vegetation and agriculture vulnerable and facilitating the spread of fires.

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Belgium returns to Rwanda and retains its influence in Central Africa

Belgium and Rwanda announced, on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the restoration of their diplomatic relations. The latter had been broken a year and a half after European Union sanctions against Rwandan military leaders in the context of the conflict between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Rwandese-backed AFC/M23.

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Elections in Germany: Electoral disaster for CDU and Chancellor Friedrich Merz

The extreme right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) is victorious on Sunday 20 September in regional elections in the Land of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in the north-east of the country, while the radical left party, Die Linke, won a separate election in the capital Berlin. Both elections resulted in heavy losses for the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the party of Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Anne Salles, a lecturer in German studies at Sorbonne University, was the guest of FRANCE 24.

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Speech on the State of the Union: convincing announcements?

All eyes and ears were turned to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday 16 September during the traditional speech on the State of the Union by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. A river talk – the sixth of its kind – on the broad guidelines of its European policy for the coming year.

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Legislative elections in Russia: no surprise

The European Union denounced on Friday 18 September, with the voice of a spokesman, the climate of "systematic and institutionalized repression" in which the parliamentary elections in Russia are held, against the background of war in Ukraine. The explanations of Elena Volochin, journalist in France 24 and former correspondent in Moscow.

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Russia: EU denounces elections held in a climate of "systematic repression"

The parliamentary elections start this Friday 18 September in Russia. The European Union has denounced elections taking place in a climate of "systematic and institutionalized repression" while a body of Russian opponents to the Council of Europe has called the election "simulacre". The details of Éléna Volochine, journalist and former correspondent France 24 in Moscow.

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