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Back to homepage / Shows / Business Issued on: 03/04/2024 – 13:47 05:51 BUSINESS © FRANCE 24 A new report by the World Bank and the United Nations, based on remote data collection sources, shows that damage to critical infrastructure in Gaza between October and January represents 97 percent of the GDP of the West Bank and Gaza from 2022. In this edition, we see how Israel’s war on Hamas has levelled housing and social infrastructure in the Palestinian territory. Plus, FRANCE 24’s Bryan Quinn tells us about the economic issues that came up in a phone call between US…

Gaza’s health ministry collects data from the enclave’s hospitals and the Palestinian Red Crescent.The health ministry does not report how Palestinians were killed, whether from Israeli airstrikes and artillery barrages or errant Palestinian rocket fire. It describes all casualties as victims of “Israeli aggression”.The ministry also does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. Throughout four wars and numerous skirmishes between Israel and Hamas, UN agencies have cited the Hamas-run health ministry’s death tolls in regular reports. The International Committee of the Red Cross and Palestinian Red Crescent also use the numbers.In the aftermath of war, the UN humanitarian office has published…

Belgian Marc Brys has been appointed Rigobert Song’s replacement as Cameroon’s national team coach, the country’s sports ministry announced on Tuesday. Issued on: 03/04/2024 – 08:37 The 61-year-old has coached 15 clubs in his career, in Belgium, the Netherlands and Saudi Arabia.His last job was a three-year stint with Leuven.Brys’ assistant coach will be former Cameroon forward Francois Omam-Biyik, who scored 26 international goals between 1985 and 1998.He takes over a team who were dumped out of the recent Africa Cup of Nations by Nigeria in the last 16.Cameroon are currently top of Group D of African qualifying for the…

Gaza’s health ministry collects data from the enclave’s hospitals and the Palestinian Red Crescent.The health ministry does not report how Palestinians were killed, whether from Israeli airstrikes and artillery barrages or errant Palestinian rocket fire. It describes all casualties as victims of “Israeli aggression”.The ministry also does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. Throughout four wars and numerous skirmishes between Israel and Hamas, UN agencies have cited the Hamas-run health ministry’s death tolls in regular reports. The International Committee of the Red Cross and Palestinian Red Crescent also use the numbers.In the aftermath of war, the UN humanitarian office has published…

Shell squared off against seven environmental groups in a Dutch appeals court Tuesday, with climate activists accusing the multinational oil giant of failing to implement a landmark 2021 judgement. Issued on: 03/04/2024 – 00:28 2 min Judges at The Hague District Court ruled three years ago that Shell must reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030, as it was contributing to the “dire” effects of climate change.That ruling was seen as an historic victory for climate change campaigners as it was the first time a company had been made to align its policy with the 2015 Paris climate…

Back to homepage / Shows / The Debate Issued on: 02/04/2024 – 19:54 25:36 How far could it escalate? © France24 Israel is certainly taking on all comers.Monday’s air strike in Damascus that killed three senior Iranian commanders the most spectacular of its kind since Hamas’ October 7th attack. We will ask about Tehran’s response, whether it will try to draw in the United States, and after months of cross-border rocket exchanges between Israel and Lebanon about the risk of all-out war on a second front. Meanwhile, the nightmare continues for Gaza. Will the killing of seven aid workers and…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday signed into law a measure lowering the country’s army mobilisation age from 27 to 25, the parliament said on its website.  Issued on: 02/04/2024 – 21:17Modified: 02/04/2024 – 21:19 1 min Mobilisation has been a divisive issue in a nation exhausted by more than two years of war with Russia, which has seen huge military losses.    But the move comes as Ukraine lacks soldiers to battle the Russian invasion now in its third year. Zelensky signed the bill almost a year after it was adopted by parliament. Russia, which has a far larger army, has…

Issued on: 30/03/2024 – 17:29Modified: 30/03/2024 – 18:23 02:26 Inside the Jenin refugee camp © France 24 The houses in the Jenin refugee camp are pockmarked with bullets and images of fallen Palestinian fighters are everywhere as residents of the West Bank city bear the brunt of an Israeli crackdown on militants. Since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, fighting in the occupied West Bank has surged. At least 107 people have died in Jenin alone. FRANCE 24 reports. Read more on related topics: Source link

Issued on: 02/04/2024 – 16:02 In this special programme from Kigali, Eve Jackson meets the artists rewriting Rwanda’s future. Arts24 shows you just how much “the country of a thousand hills”, with its population of 14 million, has transformed in the past 30 years since the genocide against the Tutsis. The singer and rising star Kaya Byinshii is playing a key part in the country’s surge of creative energy. She examines her Rwandan identity through the new song, “The colour of blood”, which she performs for us in the vibrant neighbourhood of Nyamirambo.With more than three quarters of Rwandans under the…

Issued on: 02/04/2024 – 12:07Modified: 02/04/2024 – 13:56 01:48 Rob Parsons, FRANCE 24 Chief Foreign Editor in Hebron, West Bank on April 2, 2024. © France 24 A US-based charity blamed Israel on Tuesday for a strike that killed seven of its staff unloading food brought to the war-torn Gaza Strip by sea to help alleviate looming famine. The group World Central Kitchen said it was pausing operations after the “targeted Israeli strike” killed Gaza aid workers on Monday. “They thought that they were safe, because the three-car convoy that they were in had markings that said ‘World Central Kitchen'”,…