French Development Agency

France has suspended all development aid and budgetary support to Niger following a military coup against President Mohamed Bazoum, the French Foreign Ministry said.

Paris "calls for an immediate return to constitutional order in Niger," along with the reinstatement of democratically-elected Bazoum, the ministry said in a statement.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic thanked the French Development Agency and the World Bank on Friday for their huge support and funds provided to local self-government authorities in Serbia to enable them to bid for various projects.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vui also participated in the conference.
"I thank France and the French Development Agency, as well as the World Bank for the huge funds they allocated for local self-governments in Serbia, which must come up with the best projects in the interest of the citizens," Vui said during his address.

"My husband does not want me to work," the wife of a religiously conservative man complained to her psychologist. "He insisted I see a women psychologist," she added. Then as the psychologist raised her eyebrow she realized her husband's inner contradiction: A pious man who disapproves of women working but insists on his wife seeing only a woman professional!