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Sudan is the 'epicentre of global suffering': UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher
Africa • 4:32 PM
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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
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DR Congo: Air crash as officials rush to fatal mine accident
Africa • 11:34 AM
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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.
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TotalEnergies accused of 'complicity in war crimes' at Mozambique gas site
Africa • 10:16 AM
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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.
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Sudan’s humanitarian crisis: UN chief says nearly two-thirds of country needs aid
Africa • 9:47 AM
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UN Humanitarian Chief Tom Fletcher visited refugee camps in Tawila and Korma in North Darfur during a week-long mission to Sudan, where he met with survivors and aid workers confronting the fallout of the ongoing civil war. He described the conditions fa
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Monday, november 17, 2025
Gunmen abduct 25 girls from Nigerian high school
Africa • 9:36 PM
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In tonight's edition: Over two dozen schoolgirls are taken from a boarding school in northwestern Nigeria. Also, the UN humanitarian chief is visiting Darfur and said that El-Fasher is "basically a crime scene". And Johannesburg gets a last-minute makeov
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Gunmen kidnap 25 girls in deadly attack on Nigerian high school
Africa • 1:51 PM
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Gunmen abducted 25 students and killed a staff member in a pre-dawn raid on a girls’ secondary school in Nigeria’s Kebbi state on Monday, police said. The attack, blamed on armed bandit gangs, is the latest in a series of mass school kidnappings that hav
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Afrikaners push back against Trump’s false white genocide claims in South Africa
Africa • 9:41 AM
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More than 40 prominent white South Africans, including analysts, economists, lawyers, journalists, religious leaders, and historians, have pushed back against Donald Trump’s repeated claims that they are being “slaughtered,” insisting in an open letter t
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Sunday, november 16, 2025
Saturday, november 15, 2025
Guinea launches Simandou mine, hoping to extract 120M tons of iron ore per year
Africa • 3:33 PM
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On Tuesday, Guinea officially began production at the Simandou mining project — home to the largest known iron ore reserves in the world. Guinean authorities hope the project will generate vital revenue for the country. But China is also heavily invested
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Mysterious plane carrying Gaza refugees lands in South Africa
Africa • 2:03 PM
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South Africa's intelligence services are investigating who was behind a chartered plane that landed in Johannesburg with more than 150 Palestinians from war-ravaged Gaza who did not have proper travel documents and were held onboard on the tarmac for aro
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DR Congo and M23 rebel group sign a framework agreement for a peace deal in Qatar
Africa • 11:53 AM
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The Democratic Republic of Congo and the M23 rebel group signed a fresh framework for peace in Qatar Saturday after multiple rounds of direct talks between the warring sides. The Rwanda-backed paramilitary group seized two major cities in DR Congo's east
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UN rights council orders probe of atrocities in Sudan's Al-Fasher
Africa • 10:00 AM
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The UN Human Rights Council on Friday ordered investigators to probe alleged atrocities in Sudan's Al-Fasher and to seek to identify perpetrators so they can be brought to justice. The decision came at the end of a special session called to address the s
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South Africa to probe mystery of a plane that arrived with more than 150 Palestinians from Gaza
Africa • 9:39 AM
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South Africa's intelligence services are investigating who was behind a chartered plane that landed in Johannesburg with more than 150 Palestinians from war-ravaged Gaza who did not have proper travel documents and were held onboard on the tarmac for aro
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DR Congo and M23 sign framework agreement for peace deal in Qatar
Africa • 12:46 AM
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The Democratic Republic of Congo and the M23 rebel group signed on Saturday in Qatar a framework agreement for a peace deal aimed at ending fighting in eastern Congo. Details by FRANCE 24 correspondent in Kinshasa, Emmet Linvingstone.
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Friday, november 14, 2025
UN rights council orders probe of atrocities in Sudan's El-Fasher
Africa • 9:17 PM
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In tonight's edition: The United Nations is launching an investigation into a massacre in El-Fasher after Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized the Sudanese city last month. Also, South Africa's intelligence services are investigating who was behind a charte
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UN rights council orders probe of atrocities in Sudan's El-Fasher amid genocide warnings
Africa • 1:45 PM
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The UN Human Rights Council on Friday ordered a probe into alleged atrocities in Sudan’s El-Fasher, acting amid stark warnings of crimes against humanity and genocide.
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UN rights council considers fact-finding mission in emergency session on Sudan
Africa • 10:34 AM
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The UN Human Rights Council was holding a special session on Friday on the situation in al-Fashir, Sudan, in which states will consider a request for a fact-finding mission on reported mass killings as the city in Darfur fell to paramilitary forces.
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Thursday, november 13, 2025
Ten years after Paris atttacks, West Africa has become world's terrorism hotspot
Africa • 9:30 PM
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In tonight's edition: Ten years after the November 13 Paris attacks, France remembers. But as Europe has tightened its defences, the epicentre of jihadist violence has moved south – to Africa. Also, protests erupt in Tunisia's city of Gabès as a court ex
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The Bright Side: Zanzibar’s women turn the tide with sponge farming
Africa • 7:49 AM
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Rising ocean temperatures have killed seaweed, depleted fish stocks and affected livelihoods in Tanzania's picturesque Zanzibar. Now sponge farming is helping turn the tide in one village, where women are earning a living by cultivating the marine organi
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Wednesday, november 12, 2025
Dozens of migrants presumed dead after boat capsizes off Libyan coast
Africa • 10:17 PM
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The United Nations said Wednesday that 42 migrants were missing and presumed dead after a boat capsized off Libya’s coast last week, the latest in a string of deadly shipwrecks in the central Mediterranean that have claimed more than a thousand lives so
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DR Congo ex-rebel leader Lumbala's trial opens in France
Africa • 9:49 PM
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In tonight's edition: There's a dramatic twist in Paris as former Congolese rebel leader Roger Lumbala abruptly dismisses his legal team, just hours after his long-awaited trial opened. Also, several West African nationals deported from the United States
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Pardoned French-Algerian dissident writer Sansal en route to Germany
Africa • 7:35 PM
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Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has granted a pardon to French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal following a request from German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the Algerian presidency said on Wednesday. Algerian authorities arrested Sansal a yea
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Could Bamako fall? Mali's capital under threat from al Qaeda-linked insurgents
Africa • 7:18 PM
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A string of coups and the pushing out of former colonial power France in favour of Russian support haven't stopped insurgents from going from strength throughout the so-called coup belt from Burkina Faso to Niger. We ask about the blockade on Bamako that
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Somalia: Rape and violence against women and children widespread, NGO warns
Africa • 2:52 PM
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The international charity Save the Children is warning of widespread violence against women and children in Somalia. Just this week, a father killed his four children in an arson attack. In October, an 11-year-old girl was subject to a violent rape, and
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Algeria pardons Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal
Africa • 2:37 PM
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Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has pardoned French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal following a request from German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Sansal, 81, was arrested last year and sentenced to five years for undermining national unity, c
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Ghana helicopter crash caused by bad weather and safety gaps, report says
Africa • 11:20 AM
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A military helicopter crash in southern Ghana in August, which killed eight people including the defence and environment ministers, was caused by adverse weather, limited visibility, and hilly terrain, according to an official probe. The 12-year-old heli
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Rebels pressuring junta: 'For first time, urban dwellers in Mali really feeling effects of conflict'
Africa • 10:29 AM
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African Union Commission President Mahmoud Ali Youssouf expressed serious concern over an ongoing jihadist blockade in Mali, calling for "urgent international action". For weeks, jihadists with the Al-Qaeda-linked Group for the Support of Islam and Musli
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Algeria jails pro-democracy Hirak poet for five years on terrorism charges
Africa • 8:55 AM
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Algeria on Tuesday jailed pro-democracy activist Mohamed Tadjadit for five years on terrorism charges, in what human right groups have called an "alarming signal' for human rights in the country. Known for his public poetry readings during Algeria's 2019
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Gabon court sentences Sylvia and Noureddin Bongo to 20 years in prison
Africa • 2:55 AM
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A Gabon court on Wednesday sentenced former first lady Sylvia Bongo and her son, Noureddin Bongo, to 20 years in prison after a swift two-day corruption trial that found them guilty of embezzlement and other charges. The pair were accused of exploiting e
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Tuesday, november 11, 2025
UN aid chief arrives in Sudan for week-long mission
Africa • 9:31 PM
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In tonight's edition: The UN's aid chief meets Sudan's army leader as the war deepens with reports of mass killings and a growing humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Darfur. Also, Ghana's government reveals what caused the helicopter crash that killed
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Sudan aid delivery talks hailed as 'constructive' by UN humanitarian chief
Africa • 6:13 PM
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UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher met Sudan’s army leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Tuesday in “constructive” talks aimed at ensuring life-saving aid reaches all parts of war-torn Sudan. Millions are facing famine and displacement amid the ongoing war b
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Jihadists threaten to overrun Mali as blockades continue
Africa • 4:47 PM
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Since September, blockades have been multiplying across Mali, carried out by jihadists from the JNIM, the al Qaeda-linked Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims. The jihadists are imposing a fuel blockade that has paralysed the landlocked Sahel count
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Cameroon: Opposition candidate Issa Tchiroma Bakary calls for release of protesters
Africa • 12:11 AM
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The toll of post-electoral violence remains unclear in Cameroon, just days after Paul Biya was sworn in for an 8th term as President. Several NGOs report about 40 deaths and thousands of arrests, though these figures have not been officially confirmed. O
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Monday, november 10, 2025
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Saturday, november 8, 2025
Tanzanian police arrest senior opposition official, hundreds charged with treason
Africa • 8:16 PM
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Tanzanian police on Saturday arrested a senior official from the opposition Chadema party and charged hundreds of people with treason in a continuing crackdown following last month's disputed elections.
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France urges citizens to leave Mali temporarily due to jihadist blockade
Africa • 2:21 PM
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France has urged its citizens in Mali to leave immediately, as Islamist insurgents maintain their blockade of the country. The French Foreign Ministry recommended that citizens use commercial flights while they are still available and avoid traveling ove
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France urges citizens to leave Mali as armed group blockade intensifies
Africa • 2:15 PM
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France has urged its citizens to leave Mali “as soon as possible” as an al-Qaeda-linked group, the Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims (JNIM), has been blockading fuel tankers since September, disrupting the flow of imported goods from Senegal and
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Art from Africa booms worldwide: Analysis with Marie-Cécile Zinsou
Africa • 10:55 AM
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It’s a big week for art in Nigeria. Lagos hosts the Contemporary Fair this weekend, while Benin City prepares for the opening of the long-awaited Museum of West African Art. The multi-million-euro project, backed by France, Germany, the Getty Foundation,
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Legendary Senegalese Orchestra Baobab returns to Paris stage
Africa • 10:27 AM
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For more than 50 years, Orchestra Baobab has emboded the elegance of West African sounds, blending traditional Senegalese and Afro-Cuban music. At the Paris Olympia concert hall the band returns to celebrate his legacy as part of their European tour. Oli
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Court orders anti-migrant group to stop barring foreigners from South African healthcare
Africa • 10:16 AM
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A South African court has ruled that an anti-migrant group must cease preventing foreign nationals from entering public hospitals, clinics, and schools, declaring the practice unlawful. The group, Operation Dudula, has been staging pickets outside health
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After two years of war, Sudan refugees need urgent assistance in Chad
Africa • 10:10 AM
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After more than two years of civil war in Sudan, the number of Sudanese refugees and Chadian returnees seeking safety in eastern Chad has ballooned to over 975,000, creating a deepening humanitarian crisis. Jennie Shin has more.
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Friday, november 7, 2025
How a satellite image allegedly showing atrocities in Sudan was misinterpreted
Africa • 3:06 PM
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In the wake of documented atrocities by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) during the capture of El-Fasher in late October, internet users shared a screenshot from Google Earth allegedly showing mass killings in Sudan. However, this image is old and actually
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France urges nationals to leave Mali temporarily amid jihadist fuel blockade
Africa • 2:56 PM
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France’s foreign ministry on Friday recommended that French nationals in Mali leave the country temporarily and "as soon as possible", citing the "worsening security situation" in the West African nation battling jihadist insurgents.
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Tanzania charges hundreds of people with treason after protests over disputed election
Africa • 2:17 PM
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Prosecutors in Tanzania on Friday charged more than 200 people with treason over their alleged roles in deadly violence surrounding the country’s disputed election, which saw President Samia Suluhu Hassan win a second term with more than 97 percent of th
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Sudan's bloody war shows no sign of ending despite US, Arab push for truce
Africa • 11:11 AM
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The war sparked by a power struggle between Sudan's army and a paramilitary group is showing no sign of slowing down despite one of the warring parties endorsing a proposed humanitarian truce backed by the United States, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emi
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Sudan's paramilitary group agrees on truce amid accusations of war crimes
Africa • 9:59 AM
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Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, at war with the regular army for more than two years, say they have agreed to a proposal for a humanitarian truce put forward by Emirat, Saudi, Egyptian and US mediators. Two days earlier the Sudanese army had r
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Nigeria facing 'multiplicity of security challenges': Communal clashes, separatists, insurgencies
Africa • 9:46 AM
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The Nigerian government said it does not tolerate religious persecution, responding to US President Donald Trump's threats of military intervention over the killing of Christians by jihadists in the country. Trump said on social media that he had asked t
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Sudan ceasefire: Political solution without accountability 'will be unstable' and doomed to fail
Africa • 9:07 AM
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Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, at war with the regular army for more than two years, announced that they had agreed to a proposal for a humanitarian truce put forward by mediators. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective, François Pica
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Thursday, november 6, 2025
