News: French Guiana

We have started to collect the most important news related to French Guiana in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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• December 25th 2020 – April 3rd 2014
• May 4th 2013 – September 9th 2011
• February 17th 2011 – December 8th 2006
• October 13th 2006 – November 12th 2005

French Guiana: news

The refugees feeding a nation

Friday, December 25th 2020, 0:07
related countries: France

How did French Guiana come to rely on its Hmong citizens for food?
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The elite soldiers protecting the Amazon rainforest

Thursday, May 9th 2019, 23:27
related countries: France

The Amazon is at risk from mining in French Guiana and it is the French Foreign Legion's job to protect it.
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Emmanuel Macron asks a seven-year-old boy about his career plans

Sunday, October 29th 2017, 14:13
related countries: France

President Macron was on a visit to French Guiana when he got talking to a local boy.
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Clashes mar Macron's French Guiana visit

Friday, October 27th 2017, 8:51
related countries: France, United States

A protest over social deprivation turns violent in the French South American territory.
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Germany to test Porsche Cayenne after media report on emissions

Monday, June 12th 2017, 17:26
related places: Cayenne

A Cayenne diesel model is to be examined after a media report said emissions were too high.
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French Guiana in total shutdown

Monday, April 10th 2017, 21:00
related countries: France

French Guiana's protesters have called for a national 'shutdown' as unrest enters its second week.
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Two more Galileo satellites launched

Friday, September 11th 2015, 6:50
related countries: France

Europe continues the roll-out of its Galileo sat-nav system with the launch of a further two spacecraft from French Guiana.
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VIDEO: Blast off for sat-nav satellites

Friday, August 22nd 2014, 13:09
related countries: France

A Soyuz rocket carrying two satellites which will make up part of a new European sat-nav system, blasts off from French Guiana.
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VIDEO: Clean getaway for European satellite

Thursday, April 3rd 2014, 21:50
related countries: France

The biggest civil Earth-observation programme ever conceived has begun with the launch of a radar satellite from French Guiana.
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EU set to roll out big space project

Thursday, April 3rd 2014, 0:40
related countries: France

The European Union begins the roll-out on Thursday of the biggest Earth-observation programme ever conceived - with the launch of the Sentinel-1a radar satellite from French Guiana.
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