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Gun violence in Guadeloupe has claimed 12 lives so far this year in the French Caribbean territory, where one firearm exists for every 10 residents. Anti-crime brigades are struggling to contain the violence as the number of offenders—increasingly young people—continues to rise.

Every year, 45 percent of university-bound students from France's overseas territories leave their island to pursue higher education. From Réunion to Guadeloupe, brain drain keeps growing, driven by a lack of opportunity. Nowhere is this more acute than in Martinique, which is on track to become France's oldest department within 25 years.

French deputies on the Law Committee unanimously voted to formally repeal the 'Black Code,' never previously repealed in law, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the Taubira law that recognized slavery and human trafficking as crimes against humanity.