Author: Cyprien Leduc

Morocco and Senegal have expressed their shared desire to strengthening their partnership and enhance regional integration This was at the focus of talks held on Tuesday in Rabat between Morocco’s Minister of Economy and Finance, Nadia Fettah, and visiting Senegal’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yassine Fall. During the meeting, both ministers commended the excellent friendship and fraternity ties binding Morocco and Senegal, and highlighted the existing opportunities to bolster economic cooperation, particularly through the large-scale regional integration initiatives spearheaded by the Kingdom under the leadership of King Mohammed VI, the Ministry of Economy and Finance said in press release posted…

The internet business has all the trappings of false advertisement. Quick riches and easy bucks. But what is not clear is the hijacking of your intellectual property by refusal to release the accounts is unheard. Offender par excellence Godaddy.com with its new “customer care” department. Despite flashy customer-oriented software, with all the bells and whistles, since the company going public and killing the racing queens from the program, the customer service culture has deteriorated. Hours of long waiting, bot generated responses and rude staffing cutting off the inquiries is the norm. The Indian located call center is described as the…

Suspects allegedly interfered with EU Sakharov Prize nominations to help foreign governments, leaked police files suggest. The EU’s highest honor for human rights work was targeted by an allegedly corrupt network operating on behalf of foreign governments at the heart of the European Parliament, according to a cache of leaked documents. The annual Sakharov Prize was among the aspects of parliamentary work mentioned in a file where one of the key suspects logged activities that were allegedly part of the biggest corruption scandal in the history of the EU’s Parliament. The award, which hands €50,000 to an individual or group that has…

Already addressed in Rachid Bouchareb’s stirring Days of Glory from 2006, the overlooked wartime contributions of France’s African troops get another airing in this new drama. This time, the film deals with the Senegalese corps rather than Maghrebi, and the industry has moved on enough to have a bona fide superstar of that heritage toplining, in the shape of Omar Sy. On its French release, Sy was hung out to dry in the press for suggesting that the west paid disproportionate attention to conflicts close to home, such as the war in Ukraine, rather than ones in the global south. How this timid…

Five people have been charged over 90 burglaries in the Paris region in which acid was used to break the locks on apartment doors. Four of the suspects have been held in pre-trial detention since Wednesday and the fifth is being monitored by police, prosecutors in Nanterre, north-west of the French capital, told AFP. In a rare method for break-ins, the robberies were carried out by injecting a corrosive liquid to destroy the locks of apartment doors, prosecutors and a police source said. An investigation was launched last year after a July 2022 surge in burglaries using the technique in the Île-de-France…

The explosion occurred on the territory of the Zagorsk optical-mechanical plant in Sergiev Posad. Photographs of eyewitnesses were associated with him, in which a powerful column of smoke was visible on the morning of August 9. This was reported by TASS with reference to emergency services, the information was confirmed by local authorities. According to the city administration, now the plant “has announced a total evacuation of all buildings and workshops, including rented ones. There are a lot of buildings where glass flew out. The governor of the region Andrey Vorobyov left for the place. There is no official information about the victims, but…

On Wednesday, August 9, Crimean publics report explosions in the Dzhankoy region. Shortly before that, they reported that the Crimean bridge was blocked and published a video. The Sevastopol Bay was shrouded in smoke, photos of local publics testify. The “authorities” appointed by the Russian Federation claim that this fleet is conducting exercises on radiation, chemical and biological protection. “The smell is unpleasant, but it is absolutely safe,” they say. We wrote that the Crimean bridge was protected from surface and underwater drones with special barriers. And also that earlier the occupying authorities stated that a surface drone was discovered near Sevastopol.…

Les Soulèvements de La Terre uses direct action aimed at big business interests The French government is to shut down a climate protest group over a series of recent demonstrations citing risks to public safety, as the environmental activists called the decision “political and particularly worrying”. Les Soulèvements de la Terre (Earth Uprising) is an umbrella group of several different environmental activist associations across France. It is seen as leading a new form of more radical climate action in Europe with high-profile direct action often aimed at big business interests, state projects and large-scale farming. The group was part of a…

The longer Russia’s invasion drags on, the more obvious it becomes that the international powers involved are pursuing interests other than the protection of Ukraine. In the United States, for example, the upcoming Republican primaries are set to turn an international crisis into part of the American culture wars. Every contender for the GOP nomination will have to be extremely careful not to appear supportive of yet another foreign war after the painful memories of Iraq and Afghanistan. Similar forces are at play within the EU. It has been an open secret since French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to China…

France has been criticised by the United Nations Human Rights Council for increased police violence, including against protesters, as widespread Labour Day demonstrations take over the country. France must “take measures to, in a transparent manner, address allegations regarding excessive use of force by police and gendarmerie against protesters during demonstrations”, Sweden’s representative told the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday, when France marks its annual Labour Day. Besides the recent tensions between police forces and demonstrators at the country’s pension-reform protests, rights groups have also previously pointed out the extensive scale of police violence in France during the 2018 “gilets…