Tag: Africa
In Africa, governments are turning their backs on fuel subsidies
A fuel pump in Abuja, Nigeria, in March 2020. AFOLABI SOTUNDE / REUTERS In early October, Nigerian President Bola Tinubu succeeded in extremis to defuse a call for a national…
Antoine Dupont ready for Rugby World Cup quarter-final against South Africa
Antoine Dupont, in training, in Rueil-Malmaison (Hauts-de-Seine), October 11, 2023. ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT / AFP Now the real surprise would be if he doesn’t play this match. Antoine Dupont, injured in…
IMF predicts fragile recovery in two-speed Africa
A man counts banknotes at a market in Yola, Nigeria, February 22, 2023. ESA ALEXANDER / REUTERS Has the worst finally passed for an African continent badly shaken by the…
Rugby World Cup: the probable line-up of the Blues against South Africa with Dupont starting
Romain Rouillard (with Martin Lange) / Photo credit: MATTHIEU MIRVILLE / DPPI VIA AFP 6:01 p.m., October 10, 2023 During today’s training of the French XV in Rueil-Malmaison, Antoine Dupont,…
Africa divided after Hamas attack on Israel
Members of the KwaZulu-Natal Palestine Solidarity Forum and other students and members of civil society groups hold a candlelight vigil and prayer for Gaza and Palestine in central Durban, South…
Rugby World Cup: the French XV are already preparing for their quarter-final against South Africa
Cédric Chasseur / Photo credits: SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP 8:40 a.m., October 9, 2023 After qualifying for the quarter-finals of the Rugby World Cup by eliminating Italy, the French XV…
Rugby World Cup: South Africa, a strong opponent for the French XV
It’s a poster worthy of a final. This Sunday, the French rugby team faces South Africa in the quarter-finals of the World Cup. After a brilliant group stage and four…
Antoine Dupont, authorized to resume training, applies for the quarter-final of the World Cup against South Africa
Antoine Dupont, during training at the OL Stadium in Décines-Charpieu (Rhône), October 4, 2023. ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT / AFP The cheekbone of a rugby player has never so excited and worried…
“New city projects in Africa are disconnected from the real needs of the populations”
A residential building under construction in the new town Diamniadio, Senegal, October 17, 2018. EMILIE IOB / AFP Diamniadio and now Akon City in Senegal, Konza Technopolis in Kenya, Sèmè…
In Africa, the city stretches between anarchy and development
Seen from Europe, Onitsha will perhaps evoke the title of a novel by Nobel Prize winner Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. Who knows, on the other hand, that the city thus…
Africa starved by global disruption
Africa is the continent where food insecurity has increased the most in recent years. The figures are alarming. One in five people there suffer from hunger, double the global average,…
an imperial Ireland dismisses Scotland, France will challenge South Africa in the quarterfinals
Josh van der Flier’s Irish (left) won their final match of the Rugby World Cup group stages against Scotland at the Stade de France, Saint-Denis, on October 7, 2023. FRANCK…