Dans un entretien accordé à France 24, Anicet-Georges Dologuélé, candidat à l’élection présidentielle centrafricaine du 28 décembre, affirme que le président sortant Faustin-Archange Touadéra « a l’intention d’être président à vie ». « Tout est fait » pour que le scrutin ne soit « pas transparent », regrette aussi notre invité. Il se dit toutefois « favori » et regrette le …

Although the semi-autonomous Tanzanian archipelago of Zanzibar has been boosting its tourism industry in recent years, it remains largely a rural village society, where half of homes have no electricity. Inthe face of this issue, an NGO is teaching village women to become solar power technicians – providing employment, and …

A European human rights nonprofit on Tuesday accused TotalEnergies of complicity in war crimes, torture and enforced disappearances allegedly carried out by government soldiers in Mozambique, filing a criminal complaint with the French anti-terrorism prosecutor. Story by Camille Knight and Ludovic de Foucaud.

Two schoolgirls who were abducted with 24 others from a dormitory in northwestern Nigeria have escaped. At least one of them is safe, according to the school’s principal, as hunters join security forces in the search for the missing students in forests close to the school. Story by Laurent Berstecher.

Nigeria’s new army chief has ordered troops to fight “day and night” to recover 25 schoolgirls abducted in a deadly raid in Kebbi State, an attack that has become entangled in rising US political tensions after claims from President Donald Trump and his allies about the persecution of Christians in …

Boualem Sansal de retour en France: l’écrivain franco-algérien, qui se trouvait en Allemagne depuis sa libération de prison en Algérie mercredi, a atterri sur le sol français mardi et a aussitôt été reçu par Emmanuel Macron.  Le président français se « réjouit profondément de la libération » de ce « grand écrivain dont …

In an interview with FRANCE 24, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Tom Fletcher described Sudan as the « epicentre of global suffering » after visiting survivors who fled El-Fasher, the capital of the North Darfur region that was recently seized by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. He said that those who fled …

L’écrivain franco-algérien Boualem Sansal est rentré en France mardi, quelques jours après avoir été gracié par les autorités algériennes. Cette libération pourrait permettre de renouer le dialogue entre Paris et Alger, après 18 mois de crise diplomatique, souligne l’ambassadeur de France en Algérie, Stéphane Romatet.

A plane carrying the #DRC’s minister of mines crashed while landing in #Kolwezi as he travelled to the Kalando #mine, where a bridge collapse had killed dozens.

The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, a German NGO, on Monday filed a complaint against French multinational TotalEnergies, accusing it of « complicity in war crimes » at a gas site in Mozambique.