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Gabon: Ali Bongo signals the end of France-Afrique
Confirming his desire to distance himself from France, Gabonese president Ali Bongo looks determined to break away from his father's legacy. After festivities marking...
Racism: UN accuses France
The irony of the land of human rights. The UN has expressed concerns over the "political speech" and recent actions of the French government....
IT Outsourcing: Africa, the new garden of Eden
A study conducted by AT Kearney has indicated that seven African countries are among the top 50 global outsourcing destinations for IT services, also...
Second class French citizens?
A proposal to strip French citizenship of foreign-born offenders who put the lives of public officers in danger, by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, has...
Ramadan and football: The odd couple?
Ramadan, the fasting month for Muslims, begins shortly. But how are sports professionals able to cope with a holy period that is by no...
Vive La France and French Speaking Africa!
Some 400 hundred soldiers from the African continent will be marching alongside their French military counterparts on Wednesday, the French national day. President Nicolas...
Sudan banking on foreign-run archaeological digs
While the practice of sharing archaeological digs becomes more and more rare, Sudan continues to share half of its archaeological finds, in some cases,...
France crash out of World Cup
After a chaotic week-end, France want to set their minds on the pitch. Unfortunately for Les Bleus, it was not too be after a...
Cameroon DR Congo plane crash victims found
A private jet that went missing while transporting a group of investors from Yaounde, Cameroon, to Yangadou, a small mining town in Congo was...
Gyan: “A big task ahead of Ghana”
At only 24, Asamoah Gyan is quickly becoming one of Ghana's most important players. The lone striker, who scored 3 goals during the 2010...
Africa-France summit: Win-win economic ties in the offing?
In the past decade France has had a dwindling clout of influence in the strategic continent of Africa, a trend that brings the objectives...
South Africa’s Life, Above All at Cannes Film Festival
Life, Above All, a feature film by Oliver Schmitz from South Africa competing in the "Un Certain Regard" category at the Cannes Film Festival...
France: Burqa debate turns into fistfight
A debate organised by "Ni putes ni soumises", a French NGO, Tuesday night in Paris, on the question of the full Islamic veil ended...
Guinness World Records challenged over Moroccan flag stunt
Campaigners today have dismissed the unfurling of the world's biggest flag in occupied Western Sahara as a political stunt by Morocco and demanded that...
Africa’s cultural heritage treasure war with Europe
Looting, museumification, restitution... African cultural heritage experts are calling out ... and rebelling. Egypt, the instigator of an international protest movement has, for several...
African cultural heritage fight with the West fuelled by national identity
The question of African cultural heritage in the West is still hanging in the balance. Should their valuable artifacts remain in European and North...
Fixing the mutilated vagina
A cut clitoris can be repaired. For about 3 decades now, Pierre Foldès, a French urologist, has been restoring clitorises that have fallen prey...
After French restitution of Maori heads, African sacred artefacts next?
A mummified Maori warrior head at the Rouen museum, in France, finally returns home to New Zealand after more than 200 years. This unexpected...
Madagascar: Andry Rajoelina ready to share power?
Rajoelina seems to have recovered from his bout of stubbornness after assuring Malagasies, in a televised debate, Wednesday, of his intention to adhere to...
France in a hot-spot over Mugabe, El Bashir, Rajoelina affair
The France-Africa Summit set for Nice end of May is said to "have found Paris in a quandary” as it does not want to...
Western Sahara: Christopher Ross powerless
While touring the Maghreb, the U.N. special envoy for Western Sahara, Christopher Ross, witnessed, Tuesday, the antipodal positions of Morocco and the Polisario on...
White Material: A tale of White superiority
A white woman refuses to forgo her last coffee harvest in an African country during a civil war. Her desire takes precedence over the...
Vogue Paris versus Italian Vogue: Messages for Black people
Rose Cordero has graced the cover of Vogue Paris. This is the first time in eight years, after the Ethiopian Liya Kedebe, that a...
Zimbabwe: French oil group Total victim of Black empowerment regulation?
Total (Zimbabwe), a French registered oil company is being investigated for allegedly refusing to sell some of its expansive asserts to black businesspeople in...
Vanessa James and Yannick Bonheur: Black on Ice
The French skating pair, Yannick Bonheur and Vanessa James electrified spectators at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Dancing to the tune of Romeo and...
Battling Siki, world boxing’s unsung hero
The French comic book recounts the tragic life and career of boxer M’Barick Amadou Fall, one of boxing’s most prominent and yet shockingly unacknowledged...
False promises of Aid to Africa
Aid to developing countries has increased by 35% since 2004, but some G2O countries have failed in their promises. According to OECD, development aid...
Ethiopia: France Telecom wins bid to reform Ethiopia Telecom
France Telecom, the French state owned telecommunication provider, has been selected to manage Ethiopian Telecommunication Corporation (ETC), Ethiopia’s state-owned telecoms provider, after beating South...
Terrorism: Algeria threatens Washington and Paris
Are we going to witness American and Western nationals subject to the same control measures as those reserved for the Algerian population, now considered...
Rwanda and France bury the hatchet
Rwanda and France have resumed diplomatic ties after three years of ambassadorial impasse. French president Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy will visit Rwanda next month, and...