Parmi les participants prévu à ce colloque, désormais annulé : Dominique de Villepin ou Francesca Albanese, rapporteure spéciale de l’ONU pour les Territoires palestiniens. www.humanite.fr/en-debat/eta...

Henry Laurens conteste fermement ces accusations : «L’affaire a été créée par les protestations de la Licra, relayées par le Point, qui remet en cause le contenu scientifique du colloque, ce que je récuse fermement et qui constitue une injure pour tous les participants.»

Les polémiques Twitter pèsent plus lourd aux yeux du gouvernement que les travaux de chercheurs.

Le Collège de France annule un colloque sur la Palestine « en réaction à la polémique entourant » l’événement www.lemonde.fr/education/ar...

FFFA - Festival du Film Franco-Arabe de Noisy-le-Sec - Ed° 2025 - Résumé de la soirée d'ouverture avec Hind Meddeb et Costa Gavras www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH06...

FFFA - Festival du Film Franco-Arabe de Noisy-le-Sec - Ed° 2025 - Résumé de la soirée d'ouverture avec Hind Meddeb et Costa Gavras youtu.be/JH06S193iEc?...

COP30 climate summit hears from countries suffering global warming harms aje.io/2yx5z9

Melissa on the road: Bristol Palestine Film Festival 2025 melissa-on-the-road.blogspot.com/2025/09/bris...

Tanzania's Samia Suluhu Hassan: The president blamed for shattering the country's aura of stability

A new report suggests it is “highly likely” that Britain’s biggest power plant, Drax, in Yorkshire, sourced some wood from ecologically valuable forests as recently as this summer: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

PFAS - ces polluants éternels qui nous empoisonnent : LE PLUS GRAND SCANDALE SANITAIRE ? | RIEN NE VA + youtu.be/BktqUAQ8uDU?...

Côte d'Ivoire : les partis politiques dévoilent leurs listes de candidats pour les législatives rfi.my/CATx.BS

meanwhile... Israeli forces continue attacks on Palestinians in Gaza despite the ceasefire, killing one man in the central Bureij refugee camp and two others in northern and southern parts of the territory. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

This morning I woke up dreaming I was in Ireland... in the countryside. People were lovely. It was so beautiful everywhere, out of time, I rode a bike through town and even in the sea. I think about Ireland often, maybe I should go again...

Nearly 1.3 million members of the security forces and more than 26,500 internally displaced people are eligible to vote.

Sudan’s civilians flee mounting atrocities as Darfur’s war deepens rfi.my/CAVH.BS

Tanzanian authorities have detained a senior official from the main opposition party, Chadema, amid a spate of arrests in connection to deadly protests during elections last week. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

[PÉTITION] Pour des titres de séjour stables pour les travailleur·se·s étranger·e·s en France !  www.amnesty.fr/petitions/ex...

24H SANS LES IMMIGRÉS EN FRANCE | RIEN NE VA + youtu.be/z9aK3wy72Uk?...

COP30: Indigenous peoples vital to humanity's future, Brazilian minister tells AFP rfi.my/CAR7.BS

"Emergency Sudan Fundraiser" @ The Africa Centre, London www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/emergency-...

Attentats du 13-Novembre 2025 en France : dix ans après, la commune belge de Molenbeek peine à changer d'image youtu.be/Q5WpQoxKMhY?...

Quand on me parle commémoration du 13 novembre, je repense à une soirée surréaliste où j'assistais en banlieue parisienne à une représentation d'une pièce de théâtre de Koltès, inspirée des attentats de l'OAS contre les Algériens en 1960-61... melissa-on-the-road.blogspot.com/2015/11/mon-...

I came back from Italy this week, and social media remind me that, then years ago now, I went to Sicily for the first time. I learned so much there. Sono un poco Siciliana… Sicilia melissa-on-the-road.blogspot.com/2015/10/sici...

Social media videos, satellite images capture snapshot of atrocities in Sudan rfi.my/CAGW.BS

L’historien Alain Ruscio explique en quoi les offensives coordonnées, des macronistes jusqu’à l’extrême droite, contre l'immigration notamment algérienne s’inscrivent dans la longue histoire du colonialisme français, toujours bien vivante. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7jR...

Absolutely sick and sickening

I was just talking about that… if we don’t normalise standing up to racism, it’s just a roadmap to society breakdown, entitlement and discrimination everywhere.

ZIKORA Media & Arts African Cultural Heritage Organization presents... the Dakar Circle! A cultural event in Dakar, Senegal, on Dec. 13. The gathering will bring together top leaders, artists, cultural voices for meaningful dialogue & performances. melissa-on-the-road.blogspot.com/2025/11/daka...

Two years on from EU deal, violence against migrants in Tunisia remains rife rfi.my/CAIk.BS

I was at the opening night of the French-Arab Film Festival de Noisy-le-Sec (FFFA or Festival du Film Franco-Arabe en français), tonight, and they showed a beautiful and powerful film... melissa-on-the-road.blogspot.com/2025/11/fffa... More soon.

Sudan's RSF agrees to US proposal for humanitarian ceasefire www.reuters.com/world/africa...

TB from last year: My interview with the UN rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, on how Israel's war in Gaza has been 'emptying the land completely' rfi.my/B5oq.BS

Belém Climate Summit opens with calls to action www.un.org/en/climatech...

Cisjordanie occupée : plus de 500 familles du camp de Jénine menacées d'expulsion rfi.my/C9oi.BS

COP30: la TFFF du président Lula peut-elle sauver les forêts tropicales? Le président brésilien a lancé la Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF), jeudi 6 novembre, jour de l’ouverture du sommet des chefs d’État qui précède la COP30 à Belém (10-22 nov). rfi.my/CAAG.BS

Missing 1.5C climate target is a moral failure, UN chief tells Cop30 summit: UN secretary general António Guterres urges opening session in Brazil to bring about a ‘paradigm shift’... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Gaza’s future: the ceasefire brought relief, but the world must not look away now - Guardian's Editorial Palestinians are being born amid the rubble. They need not only immediate relief but long-term justice. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Devastated Jamaican communities still await aid after hurricane www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Viewing original works of art can relieve stress, cut heart disease risk and boost immune system, first study of its kind finds www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Zikora presents... the Dakar Circle! A cultural event in Dakar, Senegal, scheduled for December 13, 2025. melissa-on-the-road.blogspot.com/2025/11/daka...

Spotlight on Africa podcast - all our episodes here: rfi.my/4Dbw.BS Next episode to come on Tuesday...

My #Newsletter on #Substack: >> This Time in our World melissa.substack.com

Absolutely tragic weeks for Sudan... Fighting spreads to North Kordofan as Sudan’s war turns deadlier rfi.my/CA4A.BS

The Arab world embraces New York's new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, who is of Indian roots, born in Uganda, and married to Rama Duwaji, a woman of Syrian descent. rfi.my/CA6k.BS

And more generally... Kidnapped, killed or silenced: Africa's journalists increasingly under threat rfi.my/CA6N.BS

#Niger Share an invitation to a state-sponsored press briefing in Niger and face jail time. That’s the reality for six Nigerien journalists who were arrested last month in the military junta’s latest assault on media freedom. @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...

France's Interior Minister Laurent Nunez on Thursday admitted that he was unhappy with the behaviour of police officers seen in video footage during a protest against a giant reservoir in Sainte-Soline, south-western France, in March 2023. www.rfi.fr/en/france/20...

Mexico's president, Claudia Sheinbaum, groped while walking, filed a complaint against the man, who has been arrested, and calls for more awareness of harassment against women in the country: www.theguardian.com/world/video/...

Democrats punch back in US local elections - and see hope for 2026 rfi.my/C9uN.BS