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The 'wowo' women carrying DRC's border trade on their backs, despite the risks

Hundreds of women carry cross-border trade on their heads and backs every day at Kasumbalesa, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s second-busiest border crossing into Zambia. Their work keeps supply chains moving, but they endure extortion and harassment for work that gives little return.

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Why Africa's oceans bear brunt of planet's environmental crisis

The world's oceans are bearing the brunt of a triple environmental crisis, according to the European Union's Earth monitors: global warming, pollution and declining biodiversity. The EU Copernicus programme warns that Africa's coasts, buffeted by marine heatwaves and rising sea levels, are especially vulnerable.

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'It's time for this to end': Israeli mother's two-year quest to free her son

Nearly 50 people remain hostages of Hamas since being kidnapped in the group's attacks on Israel in October 2023. With an agreement to free the captives tantalisingly close, RFI spoke to the mother of one of the captives, Viki Cohen, about her nearly two-year crusade to bring her son home.

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Artists help break the silence around France's rising scourge of loneliness

Loneliness is a fact of daily life for millions of people in France, with record numbers cut off from friends, family and neighbours. At the Photoclimat Biennale in Paris, organisations working to combat isolation have joined forces with artists to explore the intimate reality of an overlooked problem.

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Gazans hail Trump ceasefire call as Hamas agrees to free hostages

Smoke billowed over Gaza City on Saturday, yet for the first time in months, residents felt a ceasefire was within reach as they welcomed US President Donald Trump's call for Israel to stop bombing.

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Chad's parliament speeds through plan to drop presidential term limits

Lawmakers in Chad have fast-tracked a proposal to allow the president to serve an unlimited number of terms, in a move that the opposition warns opens the door to authoritarianism.

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Turkey and Egypt's joint naval drill signals shifting Eastern Med alliances

As efforts continue to resolve Israel’s war in Gaza, the conflict is threatening to destabilise the wider region. A rare joint naval exercise between once-rivals Turkey and Egypt is being seen as a warning to Israel, as long-standing alliances shift and new rival partnerships take shape across the Eastern Mediterranean.

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French photojournalist Antoni Lallican killed in Ukraine drone attack

Antoni Lallican, an award-winning French photographer on assignment in Ukraine, died in a drone attack in the eastern Donbas region on Friday, press groups have announced. It is the first time a journalist has been killed by a drone in Ukraine in more than three years of war with Russia.

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The EU, France, and pesticides

This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the question about the Duplomb law. There’s “On This Day”, “The Listener’s Corner” with Paul Myers, Ollia Horton’s “Happy Moment”, and a lovely musical dessert to finish it all off. All that and the new quiz and bonus questions…

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Jane Goodall: 'Every one of us makes a difference – it's up to us what kind'

Jane Goodall, who died on Wednesday aged 91 in California, transformed how the world sees animals – and helped redefine humanity’s place in nature. RFI's Alison Hird spoke with Goodall in 2018, when a documentary about her early years in the forest was drawing new attention to her research.

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French PM ditches parliamentary override in push for budget deal

French Prime Minister Sébastian Lecornu on Friday vowed to forgo an infamous article of the constitution that would have allowed him to steamroller a budget bill through parliament without a vote – but left him vulnerable to a vote of no confidence. The move means MPs must agree a compromise…

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Côte d'Ivoire bans protests after opposition leaders barred from vote

In a statement released on Thursday, the National Security Council announced it would ban any public gatherings aimed at challenging the Constitutional Council's ruling barring two opposition leaders from standing in this month's election – a move that analysts say could backfire.

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Europe’s 'Truman Show' moment: is it time to walk off Trump’s set?

When Truman Burbank finally realises that his life is a television show – every neighbour an actor, every event scripted – he faces a terrifying choice: walk through the exit door into the unknown, or carry on in a comfortable illusion. Is this is the predicament Europe is facing under…

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Kabila death sentence deepens political and regional divides in DR Congo

The death sentence handed to former president Joseph Kabila has deepened political and regional divisions in the Democratic Republic of Congo, exposing the fragile balance between demands for justice and hopes for peace.

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Unesco veteran Matoko pitches reform agenda ahead of leadership vote

The UN's scientific and cultural agency, Unesco, faces criticism for being slow, politicised and short of funds. As it prepares to choose a successor to its French director general, Audrey Azoulay, on Monday, Congolese veteran Firmin Édouard Matoko tells RFI that his three decades inside the organisation are an asset…

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Russian 'shadow fleet' ship detained by French navy resumes voyage

A tanker accused of being part of Russia’s “shadow fleet” of sanction-busting ships resumed its voyage on Friday, six days after it was seized by the French navy off the coast of western France.

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Morocco Gen Z protests enter sixth day with calls to oust government

Mass protests in Morocco entered a sixth day on Friday, with the youth-led movement GenZ 212 demanding that the government be removed. The group said the authorities had failed to protect citizens’ constitutional rights and respond to basic social needs.

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Germany marks 35 years of unity, despite persistent East-West divide

Germany marks 35 years since its reunification on Friday, but the country’s East-West divide continues to shape its economy and its political landscape.

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Czechs head to polls with billionaire ex-premier tipped to come first

Czechs will cast ballots on Friday and Saturday in a general election which the party of self-described "Trumpist" Andrej Babis is expected to top, though without getting a majority.

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How Gen Z is taking the fight for their rights from TikTok to the streets

After sweeping away the Nepalese government in early September and shaking up the Philippines, a wave of protests initiated by Generation Z has now spread to Madagascar and Morocco. In each case, the demands are similar, with a sense of injustice informed by images on social media.

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France to try Chinese captain of Russia 'shadow fleet' vessel

A French court is to try the Chinese captain of a tanker from Russia's "shadow fleet" early next year, prosecutors said Thursday, after it was intercepted off the coast of France.

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Zelensky to urge EU leaders to speed up Europe’s drone shield plan

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky joined European Union leaders in Copenhagen on Thursday as they push ahead with plans to build a continent-wide defence shield against Russian drones. The summit follows a series of airspace intrusions that have rattled Denmark, Poland and Estonia, highlighting gaps in Europe’s security.

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Israel to deport intercepted Gaza flotilla activists to Europe

Israel said on Thursday it will deport to Europe pro-Palestinian activists on an aid flotilla headed towards Gaza as the Israeli navy intercepted vessel after vessel in the Mediterranean.

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Gaza flotilla boarded by Israeli navy amid calls to lift blockade

Multiple vessels of the Global Sumud Flotilla, a humanitarian convoy sailing towards Gaza, were intercepted and boarded by Israeli forces overnight Wednesday as they attempted to push through the naval blockade. RFI spoke to a French surgeon on board one of the 44 ships and the wife of a UK…

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Macron urges Germany to stick with European fighter jet programme

French President Emmanuel Macron has said France and Germany must maintain their resolve to keep working jointly on the European fighter jet programme.

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