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Did South Africa's White 'refugees' sell a lie to the US?
Africa • 2:51 PM
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A second group of White South Africans arrived in the US last week as part of a refugee programme put in place by the Trump administration, which alleges that members of the White Afrikaner minority are being racially persecuted. South Africa's crime sta
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'Nurses are the heartbeat of healthcare': Award-winning nurse Naomi Ohene Oti
Africa • 1:01 PM
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A Ghanaian oncology nurse who has won an international award for her work has spoken to FRANCE 24 about the need to invest in nursing. Naomi Ohene Oti is an Oncology Nurse Specialist and Head of Nursing at Ghana's National Radiotherapy Oncology and Nucle
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Monday, june 2, 2025
Thousands displaced in Nigeria after floods
Africa • 10:05 PM
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The death toll from the flash floods that have devastated parts of Niger State in north-central Nigeria has risen to 200. Rescuers are tirelessly sifting through mud and debris, searching for survivors and victims, while hundreds of people remain missing
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Twin attacks on Malian army bases, Timbuktu airport leave scores dead
Africa • 1:51 PM
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Twin attacks on Malian army bases in Timbuktu and central Mali have left at least 60 soldiers dead, with several missing or taken hostage, according to local officials. The army said it repelled a jihadist assault on its Timbuktu camp, while the deadly B
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Sunday, june 1, 2025
UK latest country to back Morocco's autonomy plan for Western Sahara
Africa • 10:33 PM
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British Foreign Minister David Lammy said Sunday that Morocco’s autonomy plan for Western Sahara is the "most credible" solution, reversing UK policy. The mineral-rich territory, largely controlled by Morocco, is claimed by Algeria-backed Polisario Front
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El nuevo primer ministro de Sudán disuelve el gobierno de transición
Africa • 8:30 PM
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El nuevo primer ministro de Sudán, Kamil Idris, disolvió el gobierno interino del país, informó la agencia de noticias estatal SUNA el domingo 1 de junio. La decisión tiene lugar en medio de una de las peores crisis humanitarias del mundo, generada por l
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Saturday, may 31, 2025
Flash floods in central Nigeria kill at least 150 people and injures dozens more
Africa • 9:31 AM
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Intense flooding throughout central Nigeria has left at least 150 people dead and injured dozens more, with teams of rescuers still searching for missing residents caught in the torrential rains. Emergency services said that the death toll was still risi
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Flash floods in central Nigeria kill at least 150 people
Africa • 6:54 AM
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Intense flooding throughout central Nigeria has left at least 150 people dead and injured dozens more, with teams of rescuers still searching for missing residents caught in the torrential rains. Emergency services said that the death toll was still risi
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Friday, may 30, 2025
Dozens dead after floods submerge market town in Nigeria
Africa • 8:29 PM
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In tonight's edition: Dozens of people are killed and many are still missing after heavy flooding swept through Niger state in Nigeria. Also, Rwanda is seeing an economic boom, but the UN is warning the east African country is leaving too many behind. An
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Al menos 151 muertos por las inundaciones en el oeste de Nigeria
Africa • 5:47 PM
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Al menos 151 personas murieron y varias más siguen desaparecidas después de que fuertes inundaciones destruyeran miles de casas en el estado de Níger, en Nigeria. 3.000 personas han sido desplazadas según informó la Agencia Nacional de Emergencias de Nig
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'Needs are staggering' in Sudan: UNICEF providing clean water, nutrition, treatment and vaccines
Africa • 11:11 AM
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A cholera outbreak in Sudan's war-ravaged capital has claimed 70 lives in two days, health officials said Thursday, as Khartoum faces a mounting health emergency after more than two years of brutal conflict. The surge in infections comes weeks after dron
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Tunisia migrant crisis: Authorities crack down on makeshift camps
Africa • 10:12 AM
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In Tunisia, operations to dismantle migrant camps in the olive groves of Sfax, in the east of the country, have been gathering pace since April. According to National Guard figures, between 20,000 and 30,000 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa had been livi
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Nigerian women forced into prostitution in Senegal
Africa • 12:21 AM
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While eastern Senegal is experiencing a gold rush, our team on the ground report how the mining boom has seen an explosion in prostitution with hundreds of Nigerian women being trafficked into the region. Also how the American transgender community is be
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Thursday, may 29, 2025
Tributes pour in for acclaimed African literature giant Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Africa • 8:50 PM
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In tonight's edition: Mauritania's former finance minister takes the African Development Bank's top job. Also, in Ghana, the cedi soars over 40 percent against the dollar, helping the country slash its foreign debt and outpace its regional peers. Plus tr
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Former DR Congo president Kabila visits rebel-held Goma
Africa • 2:55 PM
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Ex-president Joseph Kabila was back in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday, meeting local leaders in Goma, an eastern Congolese city seized by the Rwanda-backed M23 militia. His visit came despite the possibility of the former president facing a
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Sudan 'on brink' of health emergency amid deadly cholera outbreak
Africa • 9:21 AM
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A deadly cholera outbreak has killed at least 70 people in just 48 hours in Sudan's war-torn capital, health officials said Thursday, deepening an already dire humanitarian crisis after more than two years of brutal conflict between the army and paramili
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Violencia en Nigeria deja más de 10.000 muertos y 300 secuestrados en dos años, dice Amnistía Internacional
Africa • 8:13 AM
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Amnistía Internacional denunció la "escandalosa inacción" del gobierno del presidente nigeriano Bola Tinubu, que tras dos años en el poder no ha logrado frenar la escalada de violencia yihadista, ataques de bandas armadas e incidentes comunitarios que ha
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Amnesty: Thousands killed in two years of violence in north and central Nigeria
Africa • 2:59 AM
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More than 10,000 people have been killed across central and northern Nigeria in the two years since President Bola Tinubu took office, Amnesty International said Thursday, blaming his administration for failing to stem the surge in jihadist attacks, band
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Mauritania’s Sidi Ould Tah elected Africa’s new ‘superbanker’
Africa • 2:59 AM
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Sidi Ould Tah, a former Mauritanian economy minister, was elected president of the African Development Bank Thursday, succeeding Nigeria's Akinwumi Adesina as the continent's "superbanker".
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Una epidemia de cólera mata a 70 personas en la capital de Sudán
Africa • 12:05 AM
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Una epidemia de cólera causó 70 muertes en dos días en la capital de Sudán, anunció el jueves 29 de mayo el ministerio de Sanidad, en un momento en que Jartum experimenta un colapso de sus servicios médicos tras dos años de guerra.
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Wednesday, may 28, 2025
Namibia honours victims of colonial genocide as reparation calls grow
Africa • 8:22 PM
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In tonight's edition: Namibia marks the mass killings of Indigenous people in the early 20th century by former colonial ruler Germany with its first genocide remembrance day. Also, leaders of West African regional bloc ECOWAS celebrate 50 years since its
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Trump y Sudáfrica: tres falsedades para sostener un supuesto “genocidio”
Africa • 1:50 AM
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Donald Trump insiste en que en Sudáfrica hay un “genocidio” contra los granjeros blancos. Con ese argumento, acorraló a su par sudafricano, Cyril Ramaphosa, durante un encuentro en la Casa Blanca. El republicano mostró videos y recortes de prensa que, se
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Tuesday, may 27, 2025
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Friday, may 23, 2025
Former DRC president Joseph Kabila hits back as senators strip him of immunity
Africa • 9:06 PM
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Former Democratic Republic of Congo president Joseph Kabila has spoken out a day after senators stripped him of immunity. He called the justice system "an instrument of oppression for a dictatorship". Kabila now risks prosecution for his alleged backing
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El Gobierno sudanés niega haber utilizado armas químicas contra los paramilitares de las FAR
Africa • 6:19 PM
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El Gobierno sudanés negó el viernes haber utilizado armas químicas en su guerra contra los paramilitares en 2024. Calificó de “infundadas” las acusaciones emitidas por parte de Estados Unidos.
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Trump alega "genocidio" en Sudáfrica: ¿teorías conspirativas o persecución a la minoría blanca?
Africa • 4:28 PM
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El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, mantuvo el 21 de mayo un tenso encuentro con el mandatario sudafricano, Cyril Ramaphosa, en Washington. Trump incluso proyectó un video para denunciar un supuesto "genocidio" de la minoría blanca, conocida
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Sudan denies using chemical weapons in civil war after US imposes sanctions
Africa • 3:27 PM
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Sudan's government on Friday denied US allegations that it had used chemical weapons in the country's bloody civil war last year, a day after Washington said it would impose sanctions. Information Minister Khalid al-Aiser called the accusations "nothing
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South African police minister rejects Trump's 'white genocide' claim
Africa • 2:11 PM
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South Africa's police minister on Friday said that his country does not face a "white genocide" and claims that most victims of murders on farms are white are a distortion of statistics, dismissing statements by US President Donald Trump. The minister al
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Former DR Congo president Kabila loses immunity over alleged M23 links
Africa • 3:33 AM
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The mineral-rich Democratic Republic of Congo's Senate overwhelmingly voted on Thursday to strip former president Joseph Kabila of his honorific immunity amid accusations of backing M23 rebels, which recently seized land in eastern DRC with Rwandan suppo
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Thursday, may 22, 2025
Afrikaners ‘free’ to become refugees in US, South Africa's deputy president says
Africa • 9:16 PM
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South African Deputy President Paul Mashatile, in an interview with FRANCE 24’s Georja Calvin-Smith, denied President Donald Trump’s claims of a “white genocide” in South Africa. Responding to Trump’s scheme to welcome white South Africans to the US as r
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El inexistente genocidio blanco que defiende Trump ¿de dónde viene?
Africa • 7:44 PM
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El presidente Donald Trump intentó acorralar a su homólogo de Sudáfrica, Cyril Ramaphosa, por un inexistente genocidio blanco. La acusación, principalmente, la inició Elon Musk, tras controversias con su empresa Starlink. Él ha dicho que las leyes sudafr
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Wednesday, may 21, 2025
Trump-Ramaphosa meeting: Ambush or anticipated?
Africa • 9:32 PM
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Is it an anguishing ambush or masterful management of predictable volatility? As South Africa's leader visits the White House, US President Donald Trump waves fistfuls of newspaper cuttings that he claims prove a white genocide in Africa's powerhouse. He
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¿Expulsar palestinos a la convulsa Libia? EE. UU. niega que esté dentro de sus planes para Gaza
Africa • 9:22 PM
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¿Palestinos expulsados a Libia? Según el medio NBC, el Gobierno estadounidense ha evaluado la posibilidad de expulsar a un millón de palestinos de forma permanente de la Franja de Gaza hacia Libia. La Administración de Donald Trump negó esa versión; mien
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Trump ambushes South African president Ramaphosa over 'genocide' accusation
Africa • 6:57 PM
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President Donald Trump ambushed South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday by playing him a video that he claimed proved genocide is being committed against white people, driving farmers to flee to the United States. The extraordinary stunt tur
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Hard sell diplomacy? Ramaphosa-Trump sit-down turns testy
Africa • 6:30 PM
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It’s a White House visit preceded by some heavy-handed sales tactics. South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa in the lion’s den of the Oval Office after Donald Trump advisor Elon Musk accused Pretoria of discrimination over a stalled commercial deal to
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No existential crisis despite Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger’s exit, ECOWAS commission president says
Africa • 1:21 PM
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Despite Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso's exit from ECOWAS, Commission President Omar Alieu Touray told FRANCE 24 that he remains hopeful West Africa will stay united. He highlighted the bloc’s success in creating "a single market for 400 million people" o
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Tuesday, may 20, 2025
South Africa challenges US persecution claims ahead of talks with Trump
Africa • 8:52 PM
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FRANCE 24's Yinka Oyetade speaks to Ray Hartley, Research Director at the Brenthurst Foundation, about the upcoming meeting between South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and US President Donald Trump. The meeting on Wednesday comes with bilateral relat
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"Nunca habrá un éxodo de afrikáners basado en un genocidio", afirma el canciller de Sudáfrica
Africa • 5:34 PM
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El canciller de Sudáfrica, Ronald Lamola, habló con France 24 antes de la visita del presidente Cyril Ramaphosa a la Casa Blanca. El viaje es un intento por reanimar las relaciones después de que el Gobierno de Donald Trump acogiera a decenas de sudafric
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Monday, may 19, 2025
Saturday, may 17, 2025
RD Congo: el M23 expulsa a Ruanda a presuntos civiles ruandeses, antes de nuevas mediaciones de paz
Africa • 6:36 PM
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El grupo armado M23, que se apoderó a finales de enero de la ciudad de Goma, en la disputada región de Kivu del Norte, en el este de la República Democrática del Congo, expulsó a Ruanda a más de 300 civiles presentados como ruandeses sin documentación el
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Libyan protesters demand Prime Minister's resignation as three ministers resign
Africa • 1:24 PM
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Hundreds of Libyan protesters called on Friday for the ouster of the internationally-recognised prime minister and his government said one security force member was killed when some protesters tried to storm his office. Story by August Hakansson and Oliv
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Nigeria: Dancing to honour yoruba ancestors at the Egungun festival
Africa • 10:11 AM
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Nigeria has been celebrating the Yoruba tradition of Egungun, a traditional celebration of ancestors and the dead. Famous for its elaborate and colourful costumes, the event brought together festival goers from all over Africa, to celebrate Egungun's ri
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Ghana detains over 2,200 undocumented migrants in crime crackdown
Africa • 10:07 AM
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Ghanaian immigration officials said they had detained more than 2,000 undocumented foreign nationals in Accra Friday in an operation to dismantle criminal networks and curb street begging. Of the 2,241 arrested during the early morning raids, 1,332 were
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Chad's former prime minister and opposition leader arrested in clash probe
Africa • 10:02 AM
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Chad’s former prime minister and opposition leader Succès Masra was arrested Friday for his alleged involvement in a clash between herders and farmers in the country's southwest a day earlier, the country's prosecutor said. Details by Harold Girard, FRAN
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Gabon's ousted Ali Bongo released with wife and son
Africa • 9:59 AM
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Gabon's ousted former president Ali Bongo has flown to Angola with his wife and son, who had been freed almost two years after being detained following a coup, Angola's presidency said on Friday. Story by Jennie Shin.
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‘A direct attack’: US, European anti-rights groups descend on ‘family values’ events in Africa
Africa • 8:05 AM
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Ultra-conservative groups from the US and Europe are attending a “family values” conference in Kenya this week – one of several planned in Africa this year – in what activists are describing as a “direct attack” on LGBT and women’s rights.
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Friday, may 16, 2025
'There will never be an exodus of white Afrikaner farmers,' says South Africa FM
Africa • 6:58 PM
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South Africa's foreign minister Ronald Lamola speaks to FRANCE 24 ahead of President Cyril Ramaphosa's visit to the White House in a bid to reset ties between Pretoria and Washington after the US welcomed dozens of white South Africans as refugees. Lamol
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🌟The Bright Side: Women in Ivory Coast celebrate reconstructive surgery after FGM
Africa • 3:06 PM
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Adele Koue Sungbeu, a 45-year-old midwife from Ivory Coast, is among 28 women who recently underwent reconstructive surgery to repair the effects of female genital mutilation (FGM). The procedure, carried out at a public hospital in Abidjan, is part of a
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Chad’s ex-PM and opposition leader Masra ‘abducted’ from his home, party says
Africa • 9:54 AM
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Chad’s former prime minister Succes Masra was abducted from his home in the early hours of Friday morning by armed men dressed in camouflage fatigues, a member of his party said Friday. Masra leads the country’s main opposition party, and accused the jun
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Gabon’s ousted leader Bongo released from house arrest, arrives in Angola
Africa • 8:14 AM
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Gabon’s former leader Ali Bongo Ondimba, who was ousted in a 2023 military coup and placed under house arrest along with his family, was released from detention and arrived in Luanda, the Angolan presidency said Friday. Bongo’s release follows negotiatio
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Thursday, may 15, 2025
TotalEnergies back in court over Uganda oil project
Africa • 10:46 PM
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A Paris court has held a key hearing in campaigners' push for accountability from the energy multinational TotalEnergies over its controversial oil project in Uganda. The EACOP is set to be the longest project of its kind in the world, stretching almost
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Not just numbers: Quantifying development as metrology hits 150-year milestone
Africa • 9:06 PM
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If you can measure it, you can manage it. One of Kenya's metrology heavyweights speaks to Georja Calvin-Smith about how there is might in monitoring. There were no African signatories when 17 countries came together 150 years ago to set measurement stand
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Trump administration talking to African countries about taking in US expelled migrants
Africa • 3:38 PM
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The US says that it's in talks with several African countries that might agree to take in migrants expelled by Washington. FRANCE 24's Fraser Jackson speaks to the State Department about those plans and progress on the Washington-brokered DR Congo peace
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Former UN envoy blasts 'shameless' international 'indifference' towards Sudan
Africa • 10:41 AM
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In an interview with FRANCE 24, former UN envoy and ex-Tunisian foreign minister Mongi Hamdi described the war in Sudan as a "real tragedy" unfolding amid the "shameless indifference" of the international community. He called for urgent pressure from the
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Clashes erupt in Libya's Tripoli despite ceasefire
Africa • 12:29 AM
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Fresh clashes erupted Wednesday between rival militias in the Libyan capital, just hours after authorities declared the fighting over. The tensions underscores the fragility of the ceasefire and raises the specter of a broader conflict in the war-scarred
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