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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…

The United States struck overnight Iran-backed groups in Iraq and Syria in retaliation for a deadly attack on US troops, drawing condemnation Saturday from government and groups in the region. Issued on: 03/02/2024 – 18:54 3 min The United States, which promised more strikes, blamed Sunday’s drone attack on a US base in Jordan on forces backed by Iran.US forces however did not strike inside Iranian territory, with both Washington and Tehran seemingly keen to avoid all-out war.But with tensions already running high in the face of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, both the Syrian and Iraqi government joined Tehran…

Around 150,000 people took to the streets of Berlin on Saturday as nationwide protests against the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) entered their fourth week. Issued on: 03/02/2024 – 17:37 1 min Protests were also taking place in cities such as Dresden and Hanover, in a sign of growing alarm at strong public support for the AfD.People flocked to the Reichstag parliament building in Berlin, where protesters gathered under the slogan “We are the Firewall” to protest against right-wing extremism and to show support for democracy.”Whether in Eisenach, Homburg or Berlin: in small and large cities across the country, many…

Senegalese President Macky Sall on Saturday announced the indefinite postponement of the presidential election scheduled for February 25, just hours before official campaigning was due to start. Issued on: 03/02/2024 – 15:26Modified: 03/02/2024 – 16:05 2 min In an address to the nation, Sall said he had signed a decree abolishing a previous measure that set the date as lawmakers investigate two Constitutional Council judges whose integrity in the election process has been questioned. “I will begin an open national dialogue to bring together the conditions for a free, transparent and inclusive election,” Sall added without giving a new date.It…

Russian police on Saturday detained a group of around 20 journalists, including an AFP reporter, covering a protest in Moscow by the wives of men mobilised to fight in Ukraine.  Issued on: 03/02/2024 – 13:44Modified: 03/02/2024 – 13:54 2 min The women have staged rare protests outside the Kremlin walls for weeks, in an uncomfortable movement for the authorities that has so far not been put down. A detained AFP video journalist said Russian and foreign reporters — all men — were detained and transported in a van to a police station. The group of journalists was arrested as they covered and…