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Palestinians should be denied the right to vote if Israel annexes the West Bank and should be required to live separately – in effect creating apartheid-style state – according to a poll published in Haaretz, the leading Israeli newspaper. The poll exposes...

AFTER giving a speech at a business conference in London a young analyst chatted with investment executives in the audience, then followed two of them to a nearby hotel lobby. Over glasses of Chablis the executives raved about their company’s worldwide...

L'Egypte approuve "totalement" la position de l'Algérie vis-à-vis de la situation dans le nord du Mali, a déclaré, mardi 23 octobre à Alger, le ministre des affaires étrangères égyptien, Mohamed Kamel Amr, qui a précisé rejeter "les mouvements séparatistes...

A top human rights lawyer in Equatorial Guinea has gone missing, fuelling concern that he has been illegally detained, a rights group has said. Fabian Nsue Nguema was last known to have visited a jail on Monday to see a client, Human Rights Watch (HRW)...

Thabo Mbeki, the former president of South Africa, has broken a four-year silence to deliver a withering verdict on the state of the nation as it reels from violent strikes and dampened self-confidence. Although he did not mention president Jacob Zuma...

In the poor suburbs of Casablanca, Morocco's largest city, home-grown hip-hop artists blare from radios, clubs and street corners around the clock. Unlike the majority of their commercial American counterparts, these rappers don't talk much about women,...

Sierra Leone's main opposition party plans to introduce a raft of reforms to the mining and oil sectors if it wins elections next month, according to its election programme released on Saturday. The Sierra Leone People's Party's (SLPP) presidential candidate,...

Les dirigeants européens, notamment français et allemands, ont trouvé un compromis jeudi soir pour une mise en oeuvre «graduelle» de la supervision bancaire en 2013 permettant à la Banque centrale européenne (BCE) de surveiller l'ensemble des 6000 banques...

Ghana is set to embrace space science, with the inauguration of the country's first space science and technology institution. The Ghana Space Science and Technology Centre (GSSTC), which opened on 2 May, aims to become an arena of excellence in space...

There is no winner this year for the world's most valuable individual prize - the Mo Ibrahim prize for good governance in Africa. The $5m (£3.2m) prize is supposed to be awarded each year to a democratically elected leader who governed well, raised living...

Ce lundi 15 octobre 2012 marque les 25 ans de l’assassinat du capitaine thomas sankara, alors président du Burkina Faso. Depuis ce tragique coup d’état qui a porté au pouvoir Blaise Compaoré, les partisans et la famille du défunt président attendent toujours...

La quatrième Commission de l'ONU sur les questions politiques et de délocalisation a trouvé son apogée lors du grand débat sur les questions politiques et de délocalisation qui s’est tenu à partir du 09 octobre 2012 à New York. Parmi les thèmes débattus...

It may have one of the fastest growing economies in the world -- but if you're young and out of work in Africa, the future remains bleak. The search for employment is a daily struggle for 24-year-old Sherrif Mohamed. He's one of millions of young unemployed...

Si Stephen Harper trouve qu'il a bien fait de venir à Kinshasa, il espère néanmoins que le prochain Sommet de la Francophonie se tiendra dans un pays démocratique. Alors que s'achève le grand rendez-vous des pays qui ont le français comme langue commune,...

Mauritania's president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, was being flown to France for medical treatment after a bizarre incident in which he was shot in the stomach, apparently by mistake, by his own troops. Authorities in the west African nation, regarded as...