If you've ever wondered why we give the political orientation of the French newspapers, just compare the front pages of this morning's centrist Le Monde and the right-wing Le ...
As riots flared in London last week, a Paris suburb was overwhelmed by a different sort of spontaneous activity: a mass influx of food donations for famine-stricken Somalia. Community association France Afrik Terre 2 Kultur was formed after the riots that devastated Villiers-sur-Marne and other Parisian suburbs in the autumn of 2005, with the aim of using the community’s energy for something more positive.
In this week's French press; tyrannic leaders, the DSK-Banon affair, the French Socialist Party, the devastating famine in Somalia, and the secrets of various French counties.
In today's African papers; what some women have been led to because of the drought in the Horn of Africa, Ramadan prayers, water robbery, toilets and where not to go on holiday!