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Life got easier for trader Siad Hussein when Somali Islamist militants pulled out the capital. He no longer pays a Jihad tax nor does he have to watch mortars kill his customers. Small mercies, Hussein said in Mogadishu's frenetic Bakara market, under...

À une semaine du 1er tour de la présidentielle, la tension restait vive au Sénégal où de nouveaux affrontements ont eu lieu dimanche à Dakar après deux jours de violences (une vingtaine de blessés) liées à la contestation de la candidature du chef de...

Le roi Momo, 160 kilos, a reçu, vendredi 17 février, la clé symbolique de Rio de Janeiro et a donné le coup d'envoi du carnaval, un marathon de cinq jours de samba, de musique et de fête qui doit attirer cette année cinq millions de personnes dont 850...

Key Somali leaders have signed a plan to try to end the country's two-decade-long political crisis. The agreement provides for a new, smaller parliament and an upper house of elders. The deal came at a meeting in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland,...

La Chine a fait savoir samedi qu'elle appuyait les propositions de la Ligue arabe pour mettre fin aux violences en Syrie, un appui inespéré deux semaines seulement après que Pékin eut opposé son veto à une résolution du Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU soutenant...

The knock on the door is a sign of bad things to come. "Do you have any work?" they ask. They have fled their villages and come into the city out of desperation. Their bellies ache from hunger. "For those of us in the city, we are seeing the first signs...

Hundreds and hundreds of antigovernment protesters braved scattered gunfire from Syrian soldiers to march through a middle-class neighborhood in Damascus on Saturday, the biggest demonstration witnessed close to the heart of the capital since the country’s...

Les ministres des Affaires étrangères des cinq pays de l’Union pour le Maghreb arabe, l'UMA, se réunissent ce 18 février à Rabat, en vue de relancer le processus d'intégration socio-économique de ce groupement. L'UMA, dont le processus d'intégration est...

Senegalese police clashed Friday night with protesters, firing tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse them from downtown Dakar, where protests have been banned. The unrest was part of the opposition against the candidacy of President Abdoulaye Wade ahead...

German President Christian Wulff has announced his resignation, after prosecutors called for his immunity to be lifted. An ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel, Mr Wulff is embroiled in a scandal over a home loan that he accepted when he was premier of Lower...

Les dirigeants de la Communauté économique des Etats d'Afrique de l'Ouest (Cédéao) ont entamé hier, jeudi 16 février, à Abuja, capitale du Nigeria, un sommet consacré notamment à l'insécurité dans le Sahel, la piraterie dans le golfe de Guinée et l'élection...

The world must develop different indicators on sustainable development that are not biased against developing countries, a major conference has heard. Bharrat Jagdeo, former president of Guyana, said current assessments and rankings use indicators such...

An apparent attempted bombing in Bangkok Tuesday lent greater credence to the belief that Iran lies behind a wave of bombings apparently directed at Israeli targets. A series of explosions in the centre of the Thai capital led police to two men, identified...

Des Libyens ont célébré jeudi, dans la ville de Benghazi, le premier anniversaire de la manifestation à l'origine de la révolte populaire qui a conduit au renversement du dictateur Mouammar Kadhafi. Selon l'Agence France-Presse, des dizaines de Libyens...

Kadir took a bullet himself not five months ago, and his leg still drags a bit. Now his nephew Hasim has been shot, as well: three bullets to his shoulder and upper body a little less than 20 hours ago. Kadir carried his nephew on his back, a 41-year-old...