France 24 | September programme highlights

5 September 2022

France 24 has announced the highlights of its September output across the English-language service

Beyond the News | Reporters

Central Africa, under Russian Influence | September 10 | 1710 GMT

As the world watches the war in Ukraine, Russians are carrying out another fight, in Africa. Since 2017, the mercenaries of the Wagner Group, a Russian secret army have set up their base in the Central African Republic. They protect the regime in exchange for mineral resources and deploy aggressive propaganda to cover up the massacres, rapes and torture they are accused of.

Taking advantage of France’s loss of influence in its former colony, torn apart by decades of a deadly civil war, Russia has turned the country into the laboratory of a new information war. Using education, cinema, and even vodka.

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Champollion: The Man who Cracked Hieroglyphics | 9 September |1545 GMT

On 14 September 1822, Jean-François Champollion became the first Egyptologist in the world to crack the mystery of hieroglyphics. With support from his brother, he led the way in the study of ancient Egypt, lifting the veil on 1,500 years of history. In this special edition, “France in Focus” travels to Vif, in Isère, to follow in the footsteps of the “child prodigy” who would become the first head of the Louvre’s department of Egyptian antiquities.