Germany for the first time on Friday recognised it had committed genocide in Namibia during its colonial occupation, with Berlin promising financial support worth more than one billion euros to aid projects in the African nation.

In a significant step forward for relations between France and Rwanda, Emmanuel Macron recognises a damning responsibility on the part of France in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Also, in Mali, the  interim president and the PM have been released three days after they were detained and stripped of their powers in what …

À Kigali, Emmanuel Macron a insisté, jeudi, sur la « responsabilité accablante » de la France dans le génocide au Rwanda, sans pour autant formuler les excuses tant attendues. Pour le politologue Michel Galy, ce discours a « un goût d’inachevé », même s’il marque la fin d’une forme de déni institutionnel.

27 ans après le massacre de 800 000 personnes au Rwanda, Emmanuel Macron reconnait officiellement la responsabilité de la France dans le dernier des génocides du XXème siècle. « Une responsabilité accablante ». Avec ces mots prononcés au mémorial de Gisozi, le président français entend sceller une fois pour toutes la réconciliation entre Paris et …

En reconnaissant les responsabilités de la France dans le génocide au Rwanda, le président français a souhaité tourner la page de 27 ans de tensions diplomatiques. Une visite qui s’inscrit dans une démarche visant à confronter le passé, « sans repentance ni déni ». Décryptage. 

Tens of thousands of people fled the eastern DR Congo city of Goma on Thursday, choking highways, after the local governor warned in a dawn broadcast of a possible new eruption of the volcano Mount Nyiragongo. FRANCE 24’s Nadia Massih speaks with The Economist correspondent normally based in Goma, Olivia …

In recent years, Tunisia’s centre-west Kasserine region has become the target of terrorist attacks. Locals living in the mountains that surround the region are sometimes victims of homemade mines, likely scattered by insurgents across the mountain chain. Armed groups in the mountains come down to more populated areas to resupply and threaten locals. Although …

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday recognised his country’s role in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, as the two countries seek to turn the page on decades of diplomatic tensions over the bloodshed. While Macron did not formally apologise, he highlighted how France had backed the genocidal Hutu regime of …

Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Thursday hailed a speech by his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron recognising France’s role and responsibility in the 1994 genocide. « His words were something more valuable than an apology. They were the truth, » he told a joint press conference after the two leaders met in Kigali.

Tens of thousands of people are fleeing the city of Goma in eastern DR Congo fearing another volcanic eruption by Mount Nyiragongo, which spewed lava near the city last week. Traffic was jammed and pedestrians streamed through the streets, desperate to escape the impending danger.