Toke Makinwa says marriages should have an expiry date and renewal and more

Afrobeats sensation Davido, ahead of his concert in Paris on his "Timeless Tour".

Here are the top 5 richest people in the world, according to the Forbes Billionaires List 2024.

The Israeli and Iranian have different viewpoints on Sunday's attack on Israel, with Iran's press decrying what they call "Western hypocrisy". The news makes the front pages worldwide, with one US paper revealing that half the Iranian missiles failed to even reach Israel.

FRANCE 24 spoke to Abdalla Hamdok, who served as Sudan's prime minister twice after the fall of Omar al-Bashir in 2019. As the war in his country entered its second year, the former premier described the situation as "extremely catastrophic, probably the most serious, disastrous situation in the world today". Yet he expressed hope that the war "will come to an end", noting "some progress" in regional and national efforts towards a political solution.

At this year's Hannover Messe trade fair, it seems obvious that major industrial innovations are no longer possible without China. While exhibitors from China exude optimism, lobby groups plead for pragmatism.

Recent droughts in Colombia and Ecuador have severely hampered energy supplied by hydropower. Can the cheap, low-carbon renewable still thrive in an increasingly hot and dry world?