When Gabon's media regulator indefinitely suspended major social media platforms in February, citing security concerns during anti-government protests, it became the talk of town literally. Within weeks of the announcement, use of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to bypass the restrictions surged in the central African country. When gendarmerie began stopping young men at road checkpoints in the capital Libreville and other urban centres to confiscate mobile phones with VPNs installed or detain the owners, warnings spread by word of mouth.
The Ambassador Cruise Line ship is being held in Bordeaux after more than 49 passengers and crew fell ill from gastroenteritis. The woman, from Belfast, who wished to remain anonymous, boarded the ship, named Ambition, in Belfast on Friday. The ship then travelled to Liverpool the following day. It had originally been due to leave Bordeaux for Ferrol in Spain, before travelling to Gijon and Bilbao.
Residents of the Cite Soleil neighbourhood in Port-au-Prince have taken to the streets to demand government protection after a new surge of gang violence forced hundreds of people to flee their homes over the weekend. Protesters said on Tuesday they had witnessed people being killed in Cite Soleil in recent days. Haitian authorities have yet to release any information on casualties.
France is pitching what it says is a new model of partnership with African countries at a summit that begins Monday in Kenya as it completes a military withdrawal from West African countries that has been widely seen as marking declining influence on the continent. But Paris is expected to use the two-day Africa Forward Summit, which it is co-hosting, to push a new Africa policy that focuses more on English-speaking countries and offers what it calls a partnership of equals.
The United States was deporting her and 13 other West Africans to Ghana, a country none of them called their own. From there, she feared, she would be sent on to neighboring Togo, the home she had fled to avoid genital mutilation.
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), the Ukrainian NGO Truth Hounds, which documents and investigates war crimes, and France's Human Rights League (LDH) first told the authorities Yevhen Brazhnikov was in France four years ago. France's National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (PNAT) announced on Friday that the suspect, whom they only identified partially as Yevhen B., had been taken into police custody on April 7th, then charged and placed in pre-trial detention.
FIFPRO is hailing a landmark legal win after a European rights body agreed to investigate whether the French state failed to uphold labour standards for professional footballers. The unanimous decision by the European Committee of Social Rights in March marks the first time a players' union has successfully advanced a collective complaint under the European Social Charter. It paves the way for an investigation into whether France has failed to ensure proper working conditions for professional players, including minors.
French prosecutors yesterday opened a criminal investigation into Elon Musk and X, escalating a probe into sexual images of minors and other alleged illegal content on Musk's social network.
Atiana Serge Oulon was abducted from his home on June 24, 2024, by approximately 10 armed men in civilian clothing, contradicting the authorities' claims of his conscription into the military.
The Mast of Fraternity and Memory, inaugurated this month, marks a turning point in France's complicated relationship with the legacy of its history of enslavement just as the French president, Emmanuel Macron, comes under pressure to make key announcements on a process of reparatory justice.
Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu ordered several baguettes in front of the cameras in the village of Saint-Julien-Chapteuil in central France, promoting a new bill to exempt independent bread and flower shops from mandatory rest on Labour Day.
The Maritime Information Cooperation and Awareness Center (MICA center) detects any form of bombardment and immediately sends nearby ships an encrypted message, sharing the nature of the event, its context and exact position.
The Paris Prosecutor's Office announced on Thursday that the minor, suspected of using the online alias 'breach3d', faces two computer crime allegations linked to an intrusion in which between 12 million and 18 million lines of data were offered for sale on cybercrime forums.
Monaco and San Marino reported the highest life expectancies, with men in Monaco averaging 84.4 years and women averaging 88.5 years. In contrast, Nigeria and Chad had the lowest life expectancies, often facing challenges such as disease, malnutrition, and conflict.
