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Marseille art festival tells migrant stories with an Olympic twist

France, May 12 -- Marseille is not historically known as a hotspot for the visual arts. The southern French metropolis's dynamic culture is more centred around food, music, football and its beautiful ... Read More


Senegal buys back library of poet-president Leopold Senghor from France

France, May 12 -- In total, 344 volumes will leave the house in Normandy where Senghor spent the final 20 years of his life, several of them personally inscribed by authors including Martinican poet A... Read More


Eurovision Song Contest chiefs disqualify Dutch entrant over backstage incident

France, May 11 -- Klein, 26, was barred from the competition less than 12 hours before he was due to go on stage with his entry Europapa. On Friday night, he failed to appear for the dress rehearsal ... Read More


Food shortages and malnutrition reach record levels in west and central Africa

France, May 11 -- One in 10 people will have difficulty accessing safe and nutritious food in west and central Africa, projections made by organisations including Unicef and Oxfam have found. A surve... Read More


Voices from former French colonies reflect on painful slave trade legacy

France, May 10 -- Almost four million men, women and children lived as slaves in the French colonies until the abolition of the slave trade in 1848. Thousands of French citizens in those former coloni... Read More


French catering company gives refugee women a recipe for success

France, May 10 -- "I deliberately set up Bande de Cheffes as a company and not a non-profit organisation because I wanted to have a concrete social impact on the lives of a few female refugees," said ... Read More


Mbappe confirms he will leave Paris Saint-Germain at the end of the season

France, May 10 -- Mbappe, 25, joined PSG in 2017 and has won 14 trophies alongside the likes of Neymar, Lionel Messi and Marco Verratti. He has finished top of the Ligue 1 scoring charts for the past ... Read More


Israel qualifies for Eurovision final amid Gaza war protests

France, May 10 -- Singer Eden Golan performed her song "Hurricane" in Thursday's second semi-final in front of 9,000 spectators at the host city's Malmo Arena and booked her place in the final thanks ... Read More


Paris mayor warns oil project could threaten city's water supply

France, May 10 -- Eau de Paris, the Parisian water agency, filed an urgent request to suspend the permit for the project to expand an existing drilling site near the town of Nonville. A local adminis... Read More


French imports of Russian fertiliser surge since start of Ukraine war

France, May 10 -- Between 60 and 70 percent of fertilisers used on French farms have traditionally come from abroad. In 2021, 442,000 tonnes of fertiliser was brought in from Russia. But in 2023, a ... Read More