New French prime minister Michel Barnier delivers a speech during the handover ceremony, September 5, 2024 in Paris
THE French far right vetoed President Emmanuel Macron’s first choice to be the country’s new prime minister, it emerged today.
The new prime minister, Michel Barnier, pledged to work with “all those in good faith” towards more respect and unity in the politically divided nation.
In his first speech after taking office, Mr Barnier said: “The French today need and expressed their need for respect, unity and appeasement.”
ROGER McKENZIE expounds on the motivation that drove him to write a book that anticipates a dawn of a new, fully liberated Africa – the land of his ancestors
While much attention is focused on Israel’s aggression, we cannot ignore the conflicts in Africa, stoked by Western imperialism and greed for natural resources, if we’re to understand the full picture of geopolitics today, argues ROGER McKENZIE
