At every Football World Cup and any other major football tournament, it is not only Les Bleus performances on the pitch that come under scrutiny, but also the players’ identities, their migrant backgrounds and the extent to which they represent France and French society. This recurrent question speaks to unresolved issues and questions about France’s…
An explosion at a residential building in Monaco has injured three people, two of them critically. The blast occurred shortly before 21:00 local time (19:00 GMT) after a bag was left outside the building on Rue Révérend Père Louis Frolla, near the border with France. Minister of State Christophe Mirmand told AFP it was “very…
Stepping up the pressure before the upcoming G7 conference in France, US President Donald Trump has renewed threats to hit the country with massive retaliatory tariffs unless it repeals its controversial digital services tax. Read: Siri AI: A deep dive into Apple’s new intelligent assistant The primary target of the administration’s focus is France’s 3%…
Alexis Caude Interview with Alexis Caude MANAGING PARTNER, ADENIA PARTNERS Lives in: Mauritius Before becoming an investor in Africa, French-born Alexis Caude was a successful entrepreneur. At age 36, he was in a position to retire after selling his online publishing business, but went on to start several other companies. He eventually moved to Mauritius…
Canal+ CEO Maxime Saada Canal+, the French media group that now owns MultiChoice, has listed on the JSE – barely six months after taking full control of MultiChoice and delisting it from the same exchange. The secondary inward listing on the JSE’s main board, effective Wednesday, makes Canal+ the first French company to list in…
Vice President Lucia Witbooi has urged French businesses to invest in Namibia, saying the country has made major progress in diversifying its economy beyond traditional sectors such as mining and agriculture. Witbooi made the call during a meeting with French businesses and the MEDEFI delegation on yesterday morning in Nairobi, Kenya, as part of the…
French senators are preparing to debate a law that will allow the remains of six Kali’na indigenous people brought to Paris to feature in a human zoo to be sent back to French Guiana, after more than 130 years in the vaults of a museum in Paris. Pékapé, Counai, Emo-Marita, Mibipi, Makéré and Miacopo have…
President Macron blames the attack on Hezbollah. The Iran-backed armed group denies “any connection” to the incident.
France’s lower house has overwhelmingly approved a bill to ease the return of artworks and artefacts looted during the colonial era, paving the way to address restitution requests from countries including Mali, Algeria and Benin. French lawmakers on Monday passed a bill to simplify the return of artworks looted during the colonial era to their…
French now ranks ahead of Arabic as the fourth most widely spoken language in the world, according to a report published this week ahead of Friday’s international day of the French language. With 396 million speakers worldwide in 2025 compared to standard Arabic’s 335 million, French comes in behind English, Mandarin Chinese and Spanish as…
