French Guiana
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| Capital | Cayenne |
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| Population | 296,711 (Jan 2019) |
| Currency | Euro |
| Official language | French |
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| ID | 789920 |
About French Guiana
French Guiana is an overseas department of France on the northeast coast of South America, composed mainly of tropical rainforest. The ruins of 17th-century Fort Cépérou overlook the capital, Cayenne, with its colorful Creole houses and street markets. Shops and cafes surround the palm-filled main square, Place des Palmistes. The Rémire-Montjoly suburb is lined with Atlantic coast beaches.
Russia to pull out of International Space Station
... The European Space Agency (ESA) has ended its collaboration with Roskosmos to launch a rover to Mars, and Russia has stopped launches of its Soyuz spacecraft from an ESA launch site in French Guiana...
Wimbledon finalist Vere Thomas St Leger Goold who became a murderer
... He was sentenced to life in prison on the notorious Devil s Island in French Guiana...
Drought robs Amazon communities of 'life-giving' river
... Roughly 15% of that forest has been destroyed across Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela since 1978, data gathered by the non-profit conservation news platform Mongabay suggests...
Migrant crisis: The windswept beaches of opportunity and fear
... " The men, from French Guiana, told Mr Oiller they had been at sea for more than 24 hours...
Coronavirus: France announces significant lifting of restrictions
... The overseas territories of Mayotte, and French Guiana, the orange alert level remains on...
Europe's Cheops telescope will profile distant planets
...Cheops rode into space on a Russian Soyuz rocket flying out of French Guiana The European Cheops space telescope has launched to study planets outside our Solar System...
Europe launches second EDRS space laser satellite
... EDRS-C, as it is known, was sent into orbit on Tuesday by an Ariane-5 rocket from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana...
Brazil's indigenous people: Miners kill one in invasion of protected reserve
... live in dozens of villages in a 600,000-hectare reserve in Amapá, next to French Guiana...
Coronavirus: France announces significant lifting of restrictions
Emmanuel Macron delivered a speech to The Nation - His fourth since the outbreak
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced a series of coronavirus-restrictions are lifted. began to
Monday cafes and restaurants open in the whole of France and travel to be approved in other European countries.
people will also be able to visit Family Members in nursing homes, which were hit particularly hard by the Covid-19-outbreak.
In a televised address, Mr Macron said France had won, His "first victory", but warned The Virus may return.
"as soon as we will be tomorrow in the location of the page on the first Chapter, about all of Our Territory ," He Said .
Restaurants, hotels and cafés were allowed to reopen, in many parts of France, earlier this month - where alienation rules are adhered to.
Mr. Macron confirmed that from Monday, this would also happen in the Paris region, which recorded the highest number of cases in the country.
He also said that the schools re-open from 22. June - except for the high schools.
However, The President added, "this means that The Virus is gone and that we can complete our guard. The summer of 2020 will be a summer unlike any other, and we must watch the development of the epidemic prepared, if It Comes back with new force. "
Mr. Macron confirmed that The Second round of the local elections originally planned for March, will be continued on 28 June .
But, He Said , people need to collections will remain "strictly controlled", because "they are The Most important opportunities for the spread of The Virus ".
The Announcement means that all of mainland France is now in the "Green Zone " virus alert level.
The overseas territories of Mayotte, and French Guiana , the "orange" alert level remains on. Both areas still have a high number of cases that threaten to overwhelm their hospital systems.
More Than 29,400 people died from the coronavirus in France, and the country has almost 194,000 confirmed cases - although The Number of new cases has slowed significantly in the last few days.
President Macron first a strict blockade imposed March 17. This remained until 11. In may, when the country began, gently easing the restrictions.
His most recent announcement, The Most important the abolition of restrictions on marked since the lockdown began.
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Source of news: bbc.com
