Most people in three African countries have an optimistic outlook despite continuing anger at corruption and economic woes, a survey has found. South Africans, Nigerians and Kenyans all say healthcare and education will be better for the next generation....
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, on a trip to Ethiopia, said she would make Africa a priority for Germany's G20 presidency next year and outlined plans for a conference in Berlin. The German leader is on the last leg of a three day trip which has also...
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TO OUTSIDE observers a decree issued by Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi in November 2014 may have seemed benign. With the stroke of his pen, Egypt’s president designated a stretch of mostly uninhabited land in southern Egypt as a restricted military zone. In January...
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Du 19 au 22 septembre 1956 se tenait à Paris, le premier Congrès des écrivains et artistes noirs. Il fut un moment majeur dans l’affirmation culturelle et politique des peuples noirs. Soixante ans plus tard, son retentissement reste intact. S’il est bien...
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began an African tour on Monday, attending a memorial service at Entebbe airport in Uganda where his commando brother was killed rescuing hostages 40 years ago - an event which he has said shaped his future. Lt...
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Italy's coastguard said on Sunday a total of 1,230 migrants had been picked up in nine rescue operations in the waters between Sicily and North Africa, with one dead body being recovered. That brings the number of people saved at sea over the past four...
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A Dakar, Hissène Habré est désormais fixé sur son sort. Vingt-cinq ans après sa chute, l'ancien président tchadien, jugé par un tribunal spécial, a été reconnu coupable de viols, mais également de crimes contre l'humanité et crimes de guerre. Ce lundi...
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World-famous Beninese musician Angelique Kidjo has won a human rights award, along with three African youth activist movements, for their work defending freedom of expression and peaceful protest. Rights group Amnesty International announced the winners...
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NOT so long ago Jean Pierre Nzabahimana planted his fields on a hillside in western Rwanda by scattering seed held back from the last harvest. The seedlings grew up in clumps: Mr Nzabahimana, a lean, muscular man, uses his hands to convey a vaguely bushy...
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The UN Security Council has adopted a resolution calling for the repatriation of peacekeeping units whose soldiers face allegations of sexual abuse. The resolution is the first passed by the Security Council to tackle sex abuse claims against peacekeepers....
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The African Union will send a mission to northern Mali in the next few weeks to look into setting up a counter-terrorism force to support vulnerable U.N. peacekeepers, sources familiar with the matter said. The Bamako government, as well as some officials...
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L'Afrique est le nouvel eldorado des industriels de l'huile de palme et du caoutchouc, au détriment des forêts et des populations locales, affirme Greenpeace dans un rapport tirant à boulets rouges sur la holding luxembourgeoise Socfin, détenue à près...
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Le président des États-Unis a promulgué lundi une loi, adoptée la semaine dernière par le Congrès, qui vise à inciter le secteur privé à investir en Afrique afin de fournir l'électricité à 50 millions d'Africains supplémentaires. Elle ne débloque pas...
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The United States added two species of lions in Africa to its endangered list Monday, a move that will make it more difficult for hunters to bring lion trophies back into the country. The Fish and Wildlife Service, which manages the list, says it was...
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Pope Francis called on Wednesday for ethnic and religious reconciliation at the start of his first tour of Africa, where he will address a fast-growing Catholic population and seek to heal Christian-Muslim divisions. The trip will see the head of the...
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