François Picard

🇸🇩 "This reminds of the Rwandan genocide."
Sudan Doctors Union's Sayed Mohamed Abdalla on the slaughter of civilians following fall of #ElFasher

Full interview ➡️ f24.my/BXAD.y

Nvidia founder Jensen Huang walks a tight rope – balancing geopolitics and contradictory policies, Northwestern professor Nancy Qian tells #F24Debate

“While Europe's busy playing by the rules, everyone else is offloading cheap products.”

André Loesekrug Pietri explains how Europe can’t compete with Chinese products using fair trade practices.

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🇨🇳 Export licenses on rare-earth minerals are an expansion of China’s strategy. @elvirefabry.bsky.social shares more on impact of US-China trade war on #F24Debate.

The Art of Letting Trump Claim a Win, While Walking Away Stronger

Should Asia celebrate or worry?
Thursday #F24Debate goes beyond soy beans, computer chips and rare earth metals #Trump #Xi
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/w...

🇧🇾 “These balloons are testing the borders of NATO’s alliance”

Opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya says the cigarette-smuggling balloons are deliberate provocation that led to #Lithuania – #Belarus border closure.

🇺🇸 “Hope may win an election — but not run a city.”

Blick correspondent Richard Werly on #Mamdani having to balance promises of change with financial limits.

🇺🇸 Megan Rodriguez defends #Mamdani’s plan to raise property taxes to fund rent freezes — Kenny Burgos says it’s a “fallacy” that would push costs onto renters.

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We want something to look forward to and #Mamdani is promising a brighter future says Gen Z New Yorker Jamie Mars on #F24Debate

New York mayoral race enters final stretch

🇺🇸🗳️ Face of #GenZ politics?
Wednesday #F24Debate asks about why the 33-year old frontrunner in the race for mayor of New York has the whole world's attention #Mamdani
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92 is the new 82.

‘In the Name of the President’: Tanzania memoir packs a punch - The Africa Report.com A fearless memoir tracing Tanzania’s fall from Nyerere’s vision to Magufuli’s paranoia, told by a journalist who survived prison for challenging power.

Tanzania goes to the polls, with the main opposition candidates either in jail or disqualified from running. This seems an appropriate read: www.theafricareport.com/394722/in-th...

The Debate - The fall of El-Fasher: A turning point in Sudan's brutal civil war? First it was a revolution confiscated, then a dispute between coup leaders that became a civil war. Three years on, Sudan is wondering if the fall of a key city in the western Darfur region is the cue...

🇸🇩 Tuesday's show on the fall of El Fasher features @kilianlebouquin.bsky.social & @fredprab.bsky.social's gut-wrenching must-watch report from Tawila refugee camp 60km from the capital of North Darfur
Full #F24Debate on #Sudan ⤵️
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🇸🇩 "We expect more people fleeing to Tawila – many are hurt, malnourished and traumatized".

Caroline Bouvard of Solidarités International on the humanitarian crisis in #Sudan following the fall of #ElFasher

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🇸🇩 Roaa Elhag and Waleed Makram clash over the condition of detained journalist Muammar Ibrahim on #F24Debate.

🇸🇩 Towards a second partition of #Sudan?
Tuesday #F24Debate follows the fall of North Darfur's besieged capital #ElFasher to RSF paramilitaries

After his September defeat, Milei seems to have toned down his rhetoric says Orlando D’Adamo on #F24Debate

“I knew him years ago — funny, outspoken, always ready to pick a fight. Now, we’re seeing a more political side,” Juan Carluccio on President Milei’s evolution.

Trump’s got Milei’s back but that could be risky business as @edublum.bsky.social tells #F24Debate

🇦🇷 “Argentina is sending a message to the world”

Senator Carolina Losada speaks with #F24Debate on Milei’s surprise win in the midterm election.

🇦🇷 🇺🇸 An offer #Argentina couldn’t refuse?
Trump made $20bn lifeline for struggling peso contingent on voter support for Milei.
Monday #F24Debate asks about the impact of far-right libertarian’s surprise win in midterm elections

🇫🇷 🇷🇺 You heard right: le Prix Albert Londres!

Récompense méritée pour Elena Volochine for “Propagande, l’arme de Poutine”, a fascinating explainer of Kremlin myth making.

Now how about trading those crutches for an English-language book deal?

“You're asking a Western question, I'll give you a Russian answer”

Craig Copetas tells #F24Debate why analysing Putin through a Western lens is a fatal mistake — and a barrier to peace in Ukraine

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“Sanctions haven’t stopped the war — and nobody expected them to.”

Anna Borshchevskaya tells #F24Debate that despite a tougher Trump stance on Russia, sanctions won’t change Putin’s course.

Former French Ambassador to Russia Pierre Lévy explains that Putin’s ambitions reach far beyond Ukraine on #F24Debate

Boris Bondarev on how fear and discipline now rule Russia — even the powerful aren’t safe.

When does Putin feel the pinch?
Thursday #F24Debate gauges the mood inside #Russia amid fresh EU sanctions & the latest reversal in U.S. policy on #UkraineWar

🇫🇷💎 Monumental embarrassment for France?
Wednesday #F24Debate on the case of #Louvre heist of the century. What needs to change at the world's most visited museum?

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

There’s a history between Sarkozy and the magistrates — but they’re not out for revenge. @en.france24.com correspondent Claire Paccalin highlights why Sarkozy’s claims of judicial bias don’t hold up.