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French energy major sells stake in Nigerian exploration blocks to Chevron

France, Dec. 1 -- The sale concerns the PPL 2000 and PPL 2001 exploration areas, located in the prolific West Delta basin and covering a combined 2,000 square kilometres. TotalEnergies obtained the e... Read More


Cameroonian opposition figure Ekane dies after weeks in detention

France, Dec. 1 -- Ekane, 74, leader of the African Movement for New Independence and Democracy (Manidem) party, was arrested on 24 October in Douala following post-election demonstrations in what his ... Read More


World AIDS Day highlights major innovations amid decline in global funding

France, Dec. 1 -- The global fight against HIV/Aids has found itself at a troubling crossroads. On one hand, scientific progress is picking up pace; on the other, the latest UNAIDS report paints a sta... Read More


Niger to float its uranium on international market in break with France's Orano

France, Dec. 1 -- Uranium mining in Niger is at the centre of a standoff between the junta that took power in 2023 and nuclear producer Orano, which is 90-percent owned by the French government and ha... Read More


Madagascar sees bumper lychee harvest as investigators probe trade kingpin

France, Dec. 1 -- Ravatomanga, a close ally of former president Andry Rajoelina, long dominated the trade through his company Sodiat. At the busy port of Tamatave at the end of last month, workers be... Read More


French police under investigation for ridiculing feminist banner

France, Dec. 1 -- Online media Blast, which published the image of the officers, who had their faces concealed, reported that it had been taken inside a police station. It said that police officers s... Read More


The mammoth task of mapping and removing plastic waste from Aldabra atoll

France, Nov. 30 -- At the United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC) in Nice in June, Unesco and the Plastic Odyssey expedition signed a partnership aimed at restoring the world's most endangered marine W... Read More


Zelensky heads to France as Ukrainian mission hammers out peace plan with US

France, Nov. 30 -- Zelensky and Macronwill discuss "the conditions for a just and lasting peace", the French presidency said, two weeks after the leaders last met on 17 November. "We will welcome Pre... Read More


Long-lost Rubens found in Paris mansion sells for nearly €3 million

France, Nov. 30 -- "Christ on the Cross" went under the hammer at the Osenat auction house in Fontainebleu just outside Paris, where ittopped an estimate of€1 million to€2 million. Exclud... Read More


France's first woman in space in 25 years counts down to trip to the ISS

France, Nov. 30 -- "The countdown has officially begun, everything is going perfectly." Adenot was all smiles as she greeted journalists in Toulouse on Monday to discuss theEpsilon mission to the Int... Read More