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Radio France Internationale
Radio France Internationale
David Coffey with RFI

Paris Live Friday 21 February

In Brussels, the 27 member states are tackling the difficulties of consensus on the Union's budget for the next 7 years Riccardo Pareggiani / POOL / AFP

We hear how the COVID19 coronavirus is adversely affecting India's multi-billion euro manufacturing and phamaceutical industry. 

The last in our 3-part series of reports on how we need to dramatically change the way we produce food to adapt to climate change. 

Burying the hatchet at the border? Focus on Africa looks into the history of the breakdown of relations between Uganda and Rwanda, and the efforts to bring Presidents Museveni and Kagame together to normalise diplomactic ties between the two neighbours. 

Our weekly rendez-vous with RFI Kiswahili and how voter registration is being handled ahead of elections due this October. 

And we have a special extended edition of Spotlight on Africa that focuses on East Africa's dramatic battle against on the worst locust invasion since 1958. RFI's Anne Marie Bissada reports from Ethiopia on the defence mechanisms employed in the country to ensure minimum damage. 

And, as always, what's trending on RFI English.com.

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