African leaders met on Sunday to launch a continental free-trade zone that if successful would unite 1.3 billion people, create a $3.4 trillion economic bloc and usher in a new era of development.
Read More »UN pleads for ceasefire in Libya as death toll reaches 1,000
The UN Security Council called Friday for a ceasefire in Libya as the death toll from a three-month offensive on Tripoli reached 1,000, including scores killed in an air strike that hit a detention centre for migrants.
Read More »Tunisia bans niqab in government buildings
Tunisia’s premier on Friday banned the niqab face covering in government offices, citing security concerns after attacks in the North African country.
Read More »La Tunisie interdit le niqab dans les institutions publiques
La Tunisie a décidé vendredi d’interdire d’accès aux institutions publiques toute personne portant le niqab, le voile intégral, « pour des raisons de sécurité ». La disposition intervient après le double attentat suicide perpétré le 27 juin à Tunis.
Read More »L’ONU appelle à un cessez-le-feu en Libye, après un millier de morts en trois mois
L’ONU a appelé vendredi à un cessez-le-feu urgent en Libye où près de 1 000 personnes, dont des dizaines de migrants, ont été tuées en trois mois de combats entre camps rivaux près de Tripoli.
Read More »Algeria protests, independence day
Thousands of people protested for a twentieth consecutive week in Algeria’s capital on Friday, defying a major police presence and following a renewed plea for dialogue from the interim president.
Read More »Thousands defy police cordon to protest against Algeria’s interim government
Around 2,000 people protested in the Algerian capital against the interim government Friday, defying a significant police presence just days before the mandate of its president expires, witnesses said.
Read More »In South Sudan, daring to hope for peace
After five years of brutal civil war in South Sudan, a peace deal signed last year by President Salva Kiir and his opponent Riek Machar is providing hope at last. Our reporters went to Bentiu, one of the cities worst affected by the war and home to 100,000 displaced people. …
Read More »Sudan agreement reached
Sudan’s ruling military council and a coalition of opposition and protest groups have agreed to share power for three years and then hold elections in an agreement reached on Friday.
Read More »Rob Parsons Chief International Editor ‘Sudan power sharing’
France 24’s chief international editor Rob Parsons says: ‘It’s immensely encouraging they’ve achieved this much, this far’, on the power sharing agreement in Sudan.
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