French Foreign Minister Condemns Trump's Remarks on the Pope

African coverage focuses on Pope Leo XIV’s visit to Equatorial Guinea as an attempt to shine a light on prisons, justice, and governance in a country long criticized for rights abuses. The Trump feud is treated mainly as background noise to a trip framed as a rare moment of outside moral pressure on President Teodoro Obiang Nguema’s rule. Reports stress the Pope’s warnings that wars and lawlessness are putting Africa and the wider world at risk.

• •Pope Leo XIV has landed in Equatorial Guinea and plans to visit a prison there.
• •African outlets link his calls for law and justice to long-standing concerns about rights under President Teodoro Obiang Nguema.
• •The clash with Donald Trump is mentioned but not treated as central to the Africa tour.
• •Pope Leo XIV’s speeches in Africa warn that weak global order and conflicts endanger the continent’s future.
• •Coverage portrays the visit as rare outside scrutiny of Equatorial Guinea’s detention system.