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  • Youssou N'Dour and Fatoumata Diawara headline FEMUA 2026 Olivia SALAZAR-WINSPEAR
    Over the last 18 years, the FEMUA has established itself as a major date in the African cultural calendar, with concerts in Anoumabo and Dimbokro in Ivory Coast. Showcasing a continent of musical styles – including Afrobeat, rumba and rap – the event was founded by A'Salfo, frontman for the band Magic System. FRANCE 24's reporters tell us more about this year's line-up, special guest country Gabon and the wealth of cultural events taking place at FEMUA 2026. 
     

Youssou N'Dour and Fatoumata Diawara headline FEMUA 2026

1 May 2026 at 15:19
Over the last 18 years, the FEMUA has established itself as a major date in the African cultural calendar, with concerts in Anoumabo and Dimbokro in Ivory Coast. Showcasing a continent of musical styles – including Afrobeat, rumba and rap – the event was founded by A'Salfo, frontman for the band Magic System. FRANCE 24's reporters tell us more about this year's line-up, special guest country Gabon and the wealth of cultural events taking place at FEMUA 2026. 

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  • Pimps in France turn to TikTok, luring minors into prostitution FRANCE 2
    Behind ordinary-looking TikTok adverts for "rose sellers" lies a sordid reality: a recruitment scheme linked to prostitution, often targeting minors. A team from our sister channel France 2 dug into hundreds of social media videos showing how pimps in France are recruiting young girls via TikTok, promising them easy money and a glamorous lifestyle. Our France 2 colleagues report, with FRANCE 24's Lauren Bain.
     

Pimps in France turn to TikTok, luring minors into prostitution

1 May 2026 at 14:56
Behind ordinary-looking TikTok adverts for "rose sellers" lies a sordid reality: a recruitment scheme linked to prostitution, often targeting minors. A team from our sister channel France 2 dug into hundreds of social media videos showing how pimps in France are recruiting young girls via TikTok, promising them easy money and a glamorous lifestyle. Our France 2 colleagues report, with FRANCE 24's Lauren Bain.

The industrial crisis is challenging both the EU and France's distinct social and economic models

1 May 2026 at 14:15
On International Workers' Day, as demonstrators fill the streets of Paris under the banner of “bread, peace, and freedom,” William Hilderbrandt is pleased to welcome Rémi Bourgeot, Economist and Researcher at IRIS, and Author of Epistelem.org. What begins as a discussion about the sanctity of May 1st in France quickly descends into something more fundamental: an interrogation of the French and European economic model itself. Bourgeois challenges the idea that isolated reforms, such as labor market liberalization, can address what he describes as a systemic unraveling shaped by deindustrialization, bureaucratic inertia, and technological decline: “there's really an overall problem with the economic model,” he says. The energy crisis, geopolitical instability, and supply chain fragility only intensify this underlying socioeconomic imbalance.

Let them eat baguette: French bakeries enjoy May Day exemption

1 May 2026 at 14:11
French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu on Friday ordered several baguettes in front of cameras at a village bakery in a public display of support for a bill to allow bakeries and florists to open on May Day, a sacrosanct holiday for French workers, if they volunteer to work in writing and are paid double wages. The country's main trade unions oppose the bill.

Trump assassination attempt at press gala: Mainstream media and conspiracy theories

1 May 2026 at 13:14
Moments after a would-be assassin attempted to storm last weekend's White House Correspondents' Dinner, social media was flooded with conspiracy theories that the shooting was "staged". This week, FRANCE 24's media show Scoop looks at mainstream coverage and asks if it is amplifying or combatting the conspiracy theories. Our guest is David Gilbert, a reporter at Wired who covers disinformation and online extremism.

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  • Congress reduces Bolsonaro's jair term FRANCE24
    Brazil’s Congress has voted to reduce the 27-year prison sentence of former President Jair Bolsonaro, though the highly controversial decision is expected to be appealed. Bolsonaro was convicted of plotting a coup after losing the 2022 presidential election, and the move to shorten his sentence is widely seen as a setback for current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, as reported by Liza Kaminov.
     

Congress reduces Bolsonaro's jair term

1 May 2026 at 13:05
Brazil’s Congress has voted to reduce the 27-year prison sentence of former President Jair Bolsonaro, though the highly controversial decision is expected to be appealed. Bolsonaro was convicted of plotting a coup after losing the 2022 presidential election, and the move to shorten his sentence is widely seen as a setback for current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, as reported by Liza Kaminov.

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