Sixteen people have been killed in two days of violent clashes between Ugandan security forces and supporters of detained opposition leader Bobi Wine, police said Thursday, as tensions flared two months before a presidential election.

  Ghana’s former President, Jerry Rawlings, leaves behind a complicated political legacy. He died aged 73 having transitioned from being a military dictator to the father of the country’s multi party democracy. Also Covid-19 restrictions have hit a vital trade artery between DR Congo’s Goma and Rwanda’s Gisenyi. And   Motenguene, the …

In Ethiopia, leaders from the Tigray region currently at war with the federal governement say a university has been targeted in military airstrikes. The head of a South African panel investigating rampant state corruption under Jacob Zuma shoots down a bid by the ex-president to have him step aside. And in …

A small, isolated pocket of land has found itself the focus of tensions in DR Congo. On September 28, the installation of a mayor in the district of Minembwe, in the eastern province of South Kivu, sparked an outcry in the country and sent shockwaves all the way to the top. Our …

Burkina Faso goes to the polls Sunday in presidential and legislative elections amid a deteriorating security situation. FRANCE 24 interviews an expert on the stakes and challenges of the country’s election.

Burkina Faso’s President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré is standing for re-election Sunday against a dozen presidential hopefuls, including Yéli Monique Kam, the only female candidate. But she’s the long-shot candidate in a race that includes the incumbent, the runner-up in last year’s presidential election and a new candidate from the …

Les Burkinabè sont appelés aux urnes, dimanche, pour élire leur président. Treize candidats sont en lice, dont le président Roch Marc Kaboré, qui devra notamment faire face au chef de file de l’opposition, Zéphirin Diabré.

En République démocratique du Congo, dans la province du Sud-Kivu, un minuscule bout de terre isolé en altitude s’est retrouvé au cœur d’une violente polémique. L’installation le 28 septembre d’un bourgmestre dans la commune rurale de Minembwe a suscité un tollé national, agitant jusqu’aux plus hautes sphères de l’État. Nos …

A humanitarian crisis is unfolding at the border between Sudan and Ethiopia, where almost 30,000 people have fled the conflict in the neighbouring Tigray region. Our correspondent reports from a refugee camp. Also, Ugandan police say at least three people have died in protests that broke out in the capital after opposition …

A la Une ce mercredi, le conflit en Éthiopie. Il est très difficile de savoir ce qui se passe sur le terrain, alors que le pouvoir central mène une guerre contre la région rebelle du Tigré. Les deux camps revendiquent des victoires, et chaque partie accuse l’autre d’avoir commis des massacres. Notre …