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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'”,…

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was sworn in Tuesday for his third term as leader of the Arab world’s most populous nation. Issued on: 02/04/2024 – 12:57Modified: 02/04/2024 – 14:00 3 min In power for the past decade, the 69-year-old former army chief is set to remain president until 2030.Speaking before parliament, Sisi vowed to “remain faithful to my work, my eyes seeing only your interests and this country’s”.As Egypt has battled a deep economic crisis with the help of billions in overseas loans and investments, he pledged “to realise the aspirations of the Egyptian nation to build a modern,…

Iran warned arch foe Israel on Tuesday that it will punish an air strike that killed seven Revolutionary Guards, two of them generals, at its consular annex in Damascus. Issued on: 02/04/2024 – 12:19Modified: 02/04/2024 – 12:18 3 min Four other people were also reported killed in Monday’s strike which levelled the five-storey building adjacent to the Iranian embassy and further stoked tensions already running high as the Gaza war nears the end of its sixth month.Israel declined to comment on the strike, which fuelled Middle East tensions already enflamed by the war in Gaza between Israel and Iran ally…

French writer Maryse Conde, who died on Tuesday at the age of 90, became one of the greatest chroniclers of the struggles and triumphs of the descendants of Africans taken as slaves to the Caribbean.  Issued on: 02/04/2024 – 12:07 3 min But the writer born in the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe did not pen her first book until she was nearly 40, and it triggered a controversy that saw authorities in several countries order the copies destroyed.The mother of four, who once said she “did not have the confidence to present her writing to the outside world”, was in…

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…

Activists welcomed the Thai senate passing the first reading of a bill to legalise same-sex marriage Tuesday, bringing the kingdom another step closer to becoming the first Southeast Asian country to recognise marriage equality.  Issued on: 02/04/2024 – 10:46Modified: 02/04/2024 – 10:58 3 min Thailand has long enjoyed an international reputation for tolerance of the LGBTQ community, but campaigners have struggled for decades against conservative attitudes and values.The vote sailed through the unelected upper house — stacked with conservative appointees named by the last junta — with 147 votes in favour, building on the momentum from last week’s landslide vote…

Back to homepage / Shows / Business Issued on: 02/04/2024 – 11:22 04:57 BUSINESS © FRANCE 24 As Senegal’s President-elect Bassirou Diomaye Faye is sworn in this Tuesday, we focus on the major economic challenges facing the country. In a bid to lower Senegal’s 20 percent unemployment rate, the anti-establishment leader is pushing for measures that will boost job creation and lower the cost of living. Among other things, he’s pinned his hopes on the country’s oil and gas reserves. Also in this edition, California’s fast food workers are now among the best paid in the US, earning $20 per…

Issued on: 02/04/2024 – 07:14Modified: 02/04/2024 – 07:48 03:37 Rawad Taha, FRANCE 24 Correspondent in Beirut Lebanon © France 24 Suspected Israeli warplanes bombed Iran’s embassy in Syria on Monday in a strike that Iran said killed seven of its military advisers, including three senior commanders, marking a major escalation in Israel’s war with its regional adversaries. This is probably the most significant escalation since October 7″, said FRANCE 24’s correspondent in Beirut, Lebanon Rawad Taha.  Read more on related topics: Source link