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France in South Africa, Lesotho and Malawi
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France in South Africa, Lesotho and Malawi
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- US President D. Trump signed the agreement declaring an immediate and permanent end of hostilities with Iran yesterday in Versailles, France, after the G7 Summit in Évian.
- A perfect start! France 🇫🇷 beats Senegal 🇸🇳 3 - 1 in their opening match of the 2026 World Cup. Mbappé (66’ and 90+6’) and Barcola (82’) scored for Les Bleus ! Keep it up!
- Abdullah Ibrahim passed away yesterday. The world-renowned pianist and jazzman was a South African cultural icon. He left South Africa in 1962 amidst growing political repression following the Sharpeville massacre. Jazz loses a legend.
- France will convene tomorrow a conference of Palestinian and Israeli civil society for the implementation of the two-state solution. While the ceasefire in Gaza remains fragile and colonization in the West Bank accelerates, the call will propose concrete measures for the
- France’s influence on world football is unmatched 🇫🇷🐓 99 of the 1,248 players selected for the tournament were born in France, nearly 1 in 12 players on football’s biggest stage ⚽️ Among them are 23 players representing France 🇫🇷 and 76 dual nationals proudly wearing the
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Thank you to @david_martinon & team @FrenchEmbassyZA for wonderful Bastille Day 🇫🇷 celebrations & anniversary of Alliance Française Maseru 🎂 🇱🇸
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Replying to @UnderSecPD“Foreign bureaucrats directed at American speech.” We were discussing a German court ruling involving a German citizen in Germany. The rest appears to have been added for dramatic effect. - Marjane Satrapi, French-Iranian writer, illustrator and filmmaker passed away today. She was the author of Persepolis a famous graphic novel first published in French in 2000. With Persopolis, Satrapi recounts her experience of the 1979 Iranian Revolution through the eyes of a
- Ambassador @david_martinon met with His Majesty King Letsie III in Maseru today to follow up on the King’s participation to the Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi. We thank his Majesty for the warm welcome and fruitful exchange on the bilateral relation between 🇫🇷 and 🇱🇸.
- President @EmmanuelMacron and President @PaulKagame inaugurated yesterday a memorial paying tribute to the victims of the genocide against the Tutsis in 1994. Back in 2021, President Macron recognized France’s “overwhelming responsibility” in the process that eventually led to
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As Maxime Saada blew the kudu horn, Canal Plus is now officially listed at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange as of 9am today. First French company listed in 136 years ! All the best to the team in this new and promising African journey.
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