Experts on commerce said entrepreneurship and preventing “brain drain” were essential in promoting new businesses in Mediterranean regions, during a debate in Marseille on Saturday.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqim) on Saturday denied a French claim that its leader in the Sahara has been killed in the French-led offensive in northern Mali.
France on Tuesday marked its first national day of remembrance for the victims of the war that put an end to its colonial rule of Algeria. But not everyone is happy with the choice of date.
A seventh French citizen has been kidnapped in the Sahel as France backs west African preparations to intervene in the Islamist-controlled north of Mali.
Take some klezmer, add some Croatian and Czech songs, some music from north Africa and even some Celtic fiddle playing, and you get Tram des Balkans, five French guys mixing and matching ...
