Author: France 24

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…

The death toll from a strike on a bakery in the occupied eastern Ukrainian city of Lysychansk has climbed to 28 people, including a child, Russian rescuers said on Sunday. Issued on: 04/02/2024 – 08:49 1 min Moscow’s occupation forces on Saturday said Kyiv had targeted a bakery that is popular on weekends, almost two years into Russia’s full-scale offensive against its neighbour.The front in eastern Ukraine has barely moved in months but battles continue to be bloody, with intensified attacks on both sides this winter.”Search operations continue on the site of the collapsed bakery… 28 people, including a child,…

Two French volunteer aid workers were killed in a Russian drone attack in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson, French Foreign Minister Stephane Séjourné said on Friday, confirming reports from the regionalgovernor and other officials.  Issued on: 02/02/2024 – 02:26Modified: 02/02/2024 – 11:43 1 min “Russian barbarity has targeted civilians in Ukraine. Two French humanitarian workers paid for their commitment to the Ukrainians with their lives,” Foreign Minister Stephane Séjourné wrote on X. “Russia will have to answer for its crimes.” La barbarie russe a visé des civils en Ukraine.Deux humanitaires français ont payé leur engagement auprès des Ukrainiens de…

Pakistan former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Khan were sentenced to seven years in prison and fined on Saturday by a court that ruled their 2018 marriage violated the law, his party said.  Issued on: 03/02/2024 – 13:22 2 min It was the third adverse ruling against the embattled former prime minister this week and comes ahead of national elections on Thursday that he is barred from contesting.The jailed Khan, 71, has in recent days been sentenced to 10 years for leaking state secrets and 14 years along with this wife for illegally selling state gifts.”After hours…

Back to homepage / Shows / Africa Cup of Nations 2024 Issued on: 04/02/2024 – 00:47Modified: 04/02/2024 – 00:48 17:22 South Africa wins on penalties to Cape Verde © France 24 Ivory Coast score a last minute goal to book their place in the final four. Ronwen Williams saves four penalties to send South Africa into their first AFCON semi-final since 2000. To discuss all the football action, Leo McGuinn is joined by sports journalist Thando Sibiya and France 24’s James Vasina live from Ivory Coast. © Studio graphique France Médias Monde James VASINA, FRANCE 24 journalist Thando SIBIYA, Sports…

Egypt’s antiquities ministry said Saturday it was setting up a committee to review the restoration of Giza’s Menkaure Pyramid after a public outcry over the project. Issued on: 03/02/2024 – 14:27Modified: 03/02/2024 – 14:52 1 min A week ago, the head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, Mostafa Waziri, posted a Facebook video showing workers setting blocks of granite on the base of the shortest of the three Giza pyramids.The footage sparked a storm of criticism from Egyptologists who voiced fears that a wholesale reconstruction of the famed monument was under way, to the detriment of the preservation of its…

President Macky Sall postponed Senegal’s planned Feb. 25 presidential election, announcing in a televised address to the nation on Saturday that he had cancelled the relevant law due to electoral issues he warned would fuel disputes. Issued on: 03/02/2024 – 23:05Modified: 03/02/2024 – 23:10 With little more than three weeks to go before the vote, the unprecedented step of delaying the poll, to an unspecified date, pitches Senegal into uncharted constitutional waters that some opposition and civil society groups said amounted to an “institutional coup.”One opposition coalition has already vowed to challenge the move in the courts, raising the prospect…

Six journalists from the independent Azerbaijani investigative website Abzas Media have been under arrest since November 2023. They had previously transmitted elements of their investigations to the Paris-based Forbidden Stories collective, which took over their work in collaboration with 14 European news organisations in the “The Baku Connection” project, including FRANCE 24 and RFI. This article focuses on the tensions surrounding a mine in the west of the country, whose gold ends up in the products of major high-tech brands.  The anger was visible on their faces as they faced off against squadrons of riot police sent to silence them.…

A Ukrainian attack on the eastern occupied city of Lysychansk killed at least eight people and wounded 10 others, Moscow-installed authorities said Saturday, adding that there were likely more dead in the rubble underneath a bakery that was struck. Issued on: 03/02/2024 – 20:00 1 min Lysychansk, in the Lugansk region, fell to Russian forces after a brutal battle six months into Moscow’s offensive in 2022.Russia’s forces said that Ukraine had struck a building housing a popular bakery and that it believed more victims were buried in the rubble.”According to current data as a result of the shelling of a…

The United States launched air strikes against Iranian forces and allied militias in Iraq and Syria on Friday, with President Joe Biden vowing more to come in retaliation for a deadly drone attack on a US base in Jordan. The Pentagon particularly has its sights on Kataeb Hezbollah, one of the main militias responsable for attacking US troops.  The United States blamed a January 28 drone attack on forces backed by Iran, but did not strike inside the country’s territory when retaliating on Friday, with both Washington and Tehran seemingly keen to avoid an all-out war.Attacks on US troops in…