🧵 on Iran's retaliatory strikes against the US air base in Qatar. 1/ Iran, per its Supreme National Security Council, fired the exact same number of missiles "as the number of American bombs" dropped on the 3 nuclear sites. So, it's 14 missiles, not 6 or 16.

🇬🇳 En #Guinée, les avocats ne décolèrent pas. ⚖️ L'ordre des #avocats a décidé d’entamer deux semaines de grève pour protester contre l’enlèvement de l’un des leurs, Mohamed Traoré, samedi dernier, à son domicile. Les précisions de Malick DIAKITE 👇

🇺🇬 After four decades in power, #Uganda's President Yoweri #Museveni has officially declared his intention to run for a seventh term next year. 🗳️ The 80-year-old is Africa's fourth longest-ruling leader. Juliette Montilly has more 👇

Qamani wants to play football for South Africa. But he’s part of one million children in the country who don’t have a birth certificate. FRANCE 24 English france24.com/en/africa/2025…

South Africans follow “virtual influencers”, social media profiles which are entirely AI generated. youtu.be/v6U1o8UXTq0?si…

So much for freedom of speech...

Lesotho invokes state of disaster to tackle unemployment. FRANCE 24 English youtube.com/watch?v=X9GdX1…

#Lesotho 🇱🇸 has declared a national "state of disaster" over soaring unemployment and mass job losses as it reels from the economic fallout of US tariffs and aid cuts. Our correspondent Tom Canetti tells us more ⤵️

More than half of all children under five-years-old in Africa lack birth ceritificates. They often don't have access to basic healthcare or education. FRANCE 24 English Eye on Africa – France 24 youtube.com/watch?v=gcTn6a…

🇸🇿 - A plane carrying convicted rapists and child molesters deported from the US has landed in Eswatini - part of a Trump-era crackdown on undocumented criminals. Instead of being returned to their home countries, they're being rerouted to Africa. Tom Canetti has more ⤵️

🇿🇼 #Zimbabwe have defeated their oldest African rival Namibia to earn a space in the Rugby World Cup for the first time in 34 years. #FRANCE24's correspondent Sharon Mazingaizo met the team as they arrived home in Harare ⤵️

Good to see that some people who deserve to be heard finally have a voice.

Tom Canetti Thank you too, for amplifying their stories~ Words have power!

Four years ago today, Babita Deokaran filed a report flagging R850m in suspicious Tembisa Hospital payments. Within weeks, she was dead. This is the price of knowing too much. A News24 🇿🇦 🧵

Afrique du Sud 🇿🇦 : les autorités continuent à lutter contre les réseaux pédophiles qui diffusent des images pornographiques. Une personne a été arrêtée mercredi en possession de 15 armes à feu et de milliers d'images pédopornographiques. La correspondance de Caroline ⤵️

Cricket in Khayelitsha. Gary Kirsten's CATCH Trust is making sport accessible to kids in South Africa's townships. Students at Chris Hani Secondary School have become passionate about the game that teaches discipline and resilience. FRANCE 24 English youtube.com/watch?v=sl876Y…

🇿🇦 #SouthAfrica fears significant job losses, especially in the farmers and automobile industries, due to a 30% #US tariff on its imports after failing to secure a trade deal before President #Trump's deadline. FRANCE 24's Tom Canetti reports from #CapeTown 👇

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Trump's aid cuts devastating for Malawi's Dzaleka refugee camp. FRANCE 24 English youtube.com/watch?v=PPUEu3…

🇲🇼 In #Malawi, cuts to US foreign aid are hitting the World Food Programme and UNHCR hard. At the country’s only #refugee camp, refugees report growing food insecurity and rising crime, highlighting the urgent humanitarian strain, as Tom Canetti reports on #EyeOnAfrica ⤵️