French barrel sailor crosses Atlantic, arrives in Martinique

President Buhari in Lagos tours Eko Atlantic project.

On the side-lines of Africa Investment Forum 2018 held in South Africa CNBC Africa spoke to Ronald Chagoury Jr, Vice Chairman, Eko Atlantic on what they hope to achieve by attending the investment forum and the challenges and opportunities of doing business in Nigeria.

A 72-year-old French man has bobbed his way across the Atlantic in a bright orange barrel. Now he wants to cross the Pacific, also in a barrel.

Shai Weiss, Virgin Atlantic Airways chief executive officer, says the firm has an ambition to double their size at London Heathrow airport. He speaks to Bloomberg's Guy Johnson at the Paris Air Show.

The activist made the 14-day carbon-free journey on a yacht featuring solar panels and electricity-producing turbines. She has called for action to reverse climate change and had a message for President Trump.

German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has said the US and Europe must cooperate whatever the outcome of US elections. She warned of security threats from both Russia and China.

Germans are pinning high hopes on the Joe Biden presidency. But how realistic is all the talk of a new beginning for the trans-Atlantic partnership?

The Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, the last vestige of the former president’s once-dominant brand in Atlantic City, is demolished with 3,000 sticks of dynamite. After a series of bankruptcy filings, Donald Trump cut ties with the casino in 2009, even though his name briefly continued to adorn the building. Trump Plaza closed for good in 2014 and billionaire investor Carl Icahn - one of Trump's main Atlantic City financiers - acquired it out of bankruptcy in 2016.

As the world marks the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery, more and more Portuguese with African roots are calling for a critical reappraisal of this dark chapter in history.

When 80-year-old Xavier Bouget goes for a ride on his bicycle, tinkers in his workshop, waters his garden or sits down to eat a biscuit, he has a constant companion: a white female pigeon called Blanchon. Bouget, a retiree from the northwest French region of Brittany, befriended the bird when it was a chick and now it tags along with him everywhere, sitting on his shoulder or walking along beside him.

It began as one of Hitler's craziest ideas: to construct 4,000 kilometres of defences along the entire coastline of mainland Europe. Some 76 years later, local governments, private individuals and companies are trying to give a second life to sections of the infamous Atlantic Wall. In the Finistère department of Brittany in western France, a half-buried bunker now houses a museum featuring the voices of those who lived under German occupation. Meanwhile, an abandoned bunker on Brittany's Cap Fréhel peninsula is now home to a group of bats. FRANCE 24 takes a closer look at these sites and more.