RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Morocco rejected on Saturday remarks by French Foreign Minister Catherina Colonna who said President Emmanuel Macron will visit Morocco. A government official said Macron has neither an agenda nor a visit planned to Morocco, according to the Moroccan official news agency, MAP. “I am surprised that the French f...
ATHENS (AA) – Under Niger’s new military administration, the French ambassador has effectively been “taken hostage,” French President Emmanuel Macron, has claimed. “In Niger, as I speak to you, we have an ambassador and diplomatic members who are literally taken hostage at the French Embassy,” Emmanuel Macron said during a visit to the northwe...
ANKARA (AA) – France is not boycotting African artists, the country’s culture minister has said in response to reports of an order to stop cooperation. French broadcaster BFMTV had reported that a government letter sent to the authorities on Thursday asked to stop collaboration with artists from Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali. “I am extrem...
ANKARA (AA) – Paris has hailed the release of a French official by authorities in Niger, according to a statement. “France is delighted about the liberation of Mr. Stephane Jullien, an advisor to French nationals abroad, on September 13 in Niger,” said a French Foreign Ministry statement. The statement gave no additional details ab...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Sometime in 2006, Maria De Cartena decided that she wanted to wear a hijab, the Islamic headscarf. But every morning, staff at her high school in Lyon, France, would force the then-13-year-old to remove it. They would stand at the entrance to make sure she does not step onto the premises with […]
PARIS (AA) – France’s education minister on Tuesday said that they do not distinguish between the students based on their religion. Gabriel Attal said he stands by his decision to ban the abaya in school buildings, reminding that it falls in the framework of the law of 2004. “The Council of State’s rule over an [&hellip...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – France will “intervene in” the Rohingya genocide case lodged with the International Court of Justice, announced a joint statement issued after visiting French President Emmanuel Macron met Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka on Monday. “France announces its decision to intervene, a...
ANKARA (AA) – France has dismissed reports that Morocco rejected Paris’ offer of financial assistance to help people affected by the massive earthquake, saying the North African country is sovereign and can choose which peer’s assistance to accept. “Morocco, which is a sovereign country… chose to prioritize the arrival ...
TRAPPES, France (AA) – A group of people staged a protest in the northern French city of Trappes on Friday against a ban on Muslim girls wearing abaya in schools. The group, along with some parents of schoolgirls, staged the protest under the banner “Don’t Touch My Abaya Community” in front of La Plaine de […]
NIAMEY, NIGER – Hundreds of protestors gathered in Niger’s capital Niamey on Thursday in the latest protests against the presence of French troops in the West African country, where the military ousted the elected yet unpopular president more than a month ago. Along with hundreds of protesters, Nigerien singer Aichatou Ali Soumaila also ...
