Pope Francis landed in Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday for a visit that will highlight the human cost of decades of conflict in the vast central African country, which is rich in minerals but where millions are displaced and live in poverty.
Read More »Kinshasa, première étape de la tournée africaine du pape François
Le pape François est arrivé, mardi, en début d’après-midi, dans la capitale de la RD Congo pour une étape de quatre jours dans le plus grand pays catholique d’Afrique. Une visite très attendue par les Congolais, la première d’un souverain pontife depuis 1985, soit sous le pontificat de Jean-Paul II.
Read More »Poverty, but also rumba and resilience: Pope starts long-awaited DR Congo trip
Pope Francis on Tuesday is expected to land in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa’s largest predominantly Catholic country, for a landmark three-day visit.
Read More »Head of Minusma speaks to France 24: Mali mission currently unsustainable says representative
Germany’s said that it could pull its troops out of the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali early. Germany’s has about 1,100 troops as part of a 17,500 strong UN mission that’s supposed to be helping combat a jihadist insurgency in Mali. But a recent UN review’s warned that restrictions brought …
Read More »Pope’s Africa trip spotlights conflict, and church’s future
Pope Francis is on his way to the Democratic Republic of Congo. The last time a Pontiff visited the DRC was back 1985, when the country was still known as Zaire. Reconcilation will be one of the big themes of this visit as well as the role of the Catholic church. FRANCE 24’s correspondent in Kinshasa Aurélie Bazzara-Kibangula reports.
Read More »South Africa: Judge in Zuma graft trial recuses himself
The judge presiding over former South African president, Jacob Zuma ‘s corruption trial has recused himself to avoid any risk of compromising the perception of justice. Zuma faces 16 counts of fraud graft and racketteering over an arms contract sealed during his vice presidency in 1999. FRANCE 24’s correspondent in …
Read More »South Africa electricity crisis: Govt considers national state of disaster
South Africa is in the midst of an energy crisis and now the deeply indebted state power supplier Eskom is racing to try and recoup some of the phenomenal losses it’s facing due to the sheer number of customers who have not been paying thier bills. In Johannesburg, city officials are now raiding homes and literally cutting people off from the grid. FRANCE 24’s correspondents Caroline Dumay, Nadine Theron and Stefan Carstens report.
Read More »Enlisée dans une crise économique, la Tunisie au bord du défaut de paiement
Le second tour des législatives en Tunisie a été marqué, dimanche, par une abstention historique de près de 90 %. Dans le même temps, le pays s’enfonce dans la crise économique et peine à obtenir le soutien financier de ses partenaires.
Read More »A dozen security officers killed in latest Burkina attack as violence spirals
Suspected jihadists killed 13 people, most of them from the military, in the lastest such attack in Burkina Faso’s restive north, the army said Tuesday.
Read More »Burkina Faso : treize personnes, dont dix gendarmes, tuées dans une attaque dans le nord du pays
L’armée burkinabè a annoncé, mardi, que dix gendarmes, deux supplétifs de l’armée et un civil ont été tués la veille lors d’une « attaque terroriste » dans le nord du pays. « Au moins cinq gendarmes ont été blessés et une dizaine d’autres », disparus, sont « toujours recherchés », précise l’état-major.
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