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At the Africa Forward summit, a different conversation about France

France came to Nairobi last week with a message it has been trying to land for years: that it wants to be Africa's partner, not its patron. At the Africa Forward summit in May, Emmanuel Macron made that case again. Not everyone was convinced.

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Solar investment surges as Ghana races to hit renewable targets

Ghana's renewable energy capacity stands at around 280 megawatts, roughly 5 percent of the national energy mix. The government wants 7 percent by 2027. Getting there will require all the resources the country can mobilise: legislation, public investment and private capital.

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Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon slows to lowest level in six years

Brazil cut deforestation in the Amazon to its lowest level since 2019 in 2025, with tougher environmental enforcement helping reduce forest loss even as five trees continued to be felled every second in the world’s largest rainforest.

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How Europe’s rapid warming has fuelled a record May heatwave

Europe is bracing for more extreme heat after record May temperatures swept across Britain, Ireland and France this week – with scientists saying a “heat dome” over western Europe is combining with human-driven climate change, shifting weather patterns and rapid Arctic warming to intensify heat across the world’s fastest-warming continent.

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Libya appeal case enters final stretch, with Sarkozy’s legacy on the line

Nicolas Sarkozy has been many things in French public life: president, campaigner, political disruptor and, in the long-running Libya financing affair, central defendant. How that case concludes will determine which role he is best remembered for.

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Former Lafarge cement chiefs released pending Syria terrorism financing appeal

The former CEO of French cement firm Lafarge, Bruno Lafont, and his right-hand man at the company Christian Herrault are to be released from prison under judicial supervision, pending their appeal over convictions handed down in April for financing terrorism in Syria.

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Ousted PM Sonko returns to centre stage as Senegal's parliamentary speaker

Senegal’s National Assembly has elected ousted prime minister Ousmane Sonko as its speaker, handing the firebrand politician a powerful new platform just days after President Bassirou Diomaye Faye dismissed him from government.

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Attal hardens migration line, with Macron camp split over 2027 presidential race

Renaissance leader Gabriel Attal has put immigration at the heart of his newly launched presidential campaign, calling for France to admit fewer people while giving priority to those coming to work.

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Spotlight on Africa: Global jihadism's growing grip on Africa

As attacks from jihadist groups allied to Tuaregs continue in Mali, global jihadism threatens Africa like no other region on earth, according to ACLED's latest report. With the organisation's expert on West Africa, Spotlight on Africa explores how jihadist groups are expanding across the continent, controlling territory, targeting civilians and…

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Iran switches World Cup base camp to Mexico, as Washington closes door on squad

Iran's base camp for the 2026 World Cup was on Tuesday switched from the United States to Mexico, after US authorities refused to host the squad for the tournament, which starts on 11 June in Mexico City.

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Heatwave deaths in France as record May temperatures grip Europe

France is on the frontline of an exceptional early summer heatwave, with authorities reporting seven deaths – including five drownings – as a “heat dome” is pushing temperatures far above seasonal norms across much of Europe.

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UK prepares mine-sweeper for Hormuz as part of wider Franco-British coalition

The United Kingdom is preparing a mine-sweeping mission to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, as part of a wider Franco-British coalition that would move in once a peace deal ends the Iran war and commercial shipping returns.

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Pope Leo takes on Silicon Valley in landmark open letter on AI

Pope Leo has urged governments to slow down the development of artificial intelligence in his first major document on the technology. He warned that AI systems spread misinformation, prioritise conflict and risk leading the world down a path of unending war.

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France's missing children are getting younger, as numbers rise again

The number of reports of missing children in France is on the rise, reversing a downward trend of recent years, according to a report released on Monday which also reveals the children involved are getting younger.

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‘Forgiveness has to be lived out’: says Rwanda's Cannes laureat Dusabejambot

Rwandan director Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambot has become the country's first filmmaker to win the Camera d’Or for best first feature at the Cannes film festival, with Ben’Imana. The Kigali-based director talks to RFI about exploring how survivors and perpetrators continued living side by side in the year’s following the 1994 genocide…

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G7 scientists sound alarm as Arctic ice loss hits 50-year low

Arctic summer sea ice has shrunk by half since the 1970s, and scientists advising G7 leaders warn that the consequences will be felt far beyond the polar region.

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CGT chief faces defamation probe, warns French union freedom is at risk

The general secretary of France’s largest trade union has warned that union freedoms are "in danger" after she was placed under formal investigation for defamation for the second time in six months.

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Wadagni wastes no time forming new Benin government after landslide win

After winning Benin’s presidential election by a landslide, Romuald Wadagni unveiled a new, 24-member government just hours after his inauguration on Sunday.

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RFI launches Armenian-language desk targeting youth and disinformation

Radio France Internationale has inaugurated its eighteenth language service, opening an Armenian-language newsroom today, Monday, with a team of eight journalists and a mandate to reach young audiences through digital-only content.

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Suspected Ebola cases top 900 in DRC as epidemic spreads, warns WHO chief

The head of the World Health Organization says more than 900 suspected Ebola cases have been identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo, including 101 confirmed cases.

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Pacific Ocean warming fuels fears of powerful 'super El Nino'

Pacific Ocean temperatures are rising fast, raising fears that a powerful El Nino pattern could bring record global heat and chaotic weather, and fresh damage to coral reefs already weakened by climate change.

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European leaders condemn Russia's deadly ballistic missile attack on Ukraine

European Union leaders are considering putting further pressure on Russia in response to intense bombing of the Ukrainian capital in the early hours of Sunday. Russian forces fired a nuclear-capable missile in one of their heaviest barrages of the war so far.

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Monkey business: artist chimps paint in their own style, study shows

Several studies conducted in captivity have demonstrated that chimpanzees, like other great apes, enjoy painting and drawing. But new resreach led by French and Japanese primatologists has shown that they each have their own drawing style – and that it can evolve and improve over time.

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'Francophonie of the people': Juliana Lumumba's vision for the French-speaking world

As the daughter of assassinated Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba, Juliana Lumumba carries one of Africa’s most powerful political names. Now, the former culture minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo wants to use that legacy to reshape the International Organisation of La Francophonie (OIF), the world’s main French-speaking body.

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'Wiped out': Ukraine's bird lovers long for peaceful skies

When Viktor Sevidov looked up to the sky above Ukraine's war-scarred landscape, he was not watching out for incoming missiles or drones. Instead, he was looking for birds.

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