President Bola Tinubu will on Thursday evening join other high-profile panelists to speak at the New Global Financing Pact summit, Palais Brongniart in Paris, The Nation has gathered. The financial summit hosted by France seeks to establish a system that…
Mali urges immediate end to UN Minusma peacekeeping mission
Mali’s foreign minister has called on the UN to withdraw its peacekeeping force from his country “without delay”. Abdoulaye Diop accused the force, Minusma, of having “become a part of the problem in fuelling intercommunal tensions”. He was addressing the…
Brittany: Girl from British family shot dead in France named
An 11-year-old girl from a British family who was shot dead while playing on a swing in her garden in France has been named as Solaine Thornton. The family were having a barbecue on Saturday evening when the shooting happened…
France stabbing: Children attacked by knifeman in Annecy park
Four very young children have been stabbed in a park near Lake Annecy, in France’s south-east, the interior minister says. Police overpowered and arrested the attacker, Gérald Darmanin said. Reports say the children were aged about three years old and…
Flight from Paris to the US diverted to Canada due to an unruly passenger, police say
A disruptive passenger on a Friday flight from Paris, France, to Detroit, Michigan, is facing criminal charges after his behavior caused the plane to be diverted to Canada, police said. Ahmed Omar Aden, 34, was acting in an “unruly manner”…
Head of French Olympic Committee quits
French Olympic Committee chief, Brigitte Henriques, has stepped down, just over a year before the Paris Summer Games begin in late July 2024. She announced her decision at a board meeting on Thursday, the committee announced. French media reports said…
France attack: Kalashnikov assault on car kills 3 in Marseille
Three men have been shot dead in a car in the southern French city of Marseille, which has seen a recent surge in drug violence. Five people were in the vehicle and had just left a nightclub when they were…
French court to rule on Sarkozy’s appeal in corruption case
The verdict in former French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s appeal against a conviction for corruption and influence peddling is to be announced in Paris on Wednesday. In March 2021, Sarkozy, who served as president from 2007 to 2012, was handed a…
Messi set for return as PSG farewell looms
Lionel Messi is in line to return for Paris Saint-Germain for Saturday’s Ligue 1 game at home to Ajaccio after a club-imposed suspension for going on an unauthorised trip to Saudi Arabia. The seven-time Ballon d’Or winner sat out last…
Defence minister says HIV-positive people are now allowed to join French army
HIV-positive people will now be able to join the army, France’s defence minister, Sebastien Lecornu, said on France 2 TV on Monday. It follows similar moves in November 2022 for police. The decree, proposed by France’s interior minister Gérald Darmanin,…