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Malawi: French style retirement reform causes chaos
What age should one retire? This seems to be a current contentious topic both in Africa and Europe and dominating media space. In Malawi,...
The tragedy of remaining a slave: The art of Black on Black hatred
Diatribe it is not. Certainly not vitriolic. Anger at a sad situation? Maybe. Fury at our inability to be free? Perhaps. Here I am,...
Algeria snubs France in sahel counterterrorism initiative
Paris wants to organize a conference of heads of state of a group of Sahel countries that have joined forces to fight against terrorist...
Rape in Mecca: Algerians seethe with anger
The alleged rape and murder of a young Franco-Algerian girl in Mecca has set Algerian public opinion ablaze. An investigation was opened on Thursday...
Beneath the Islamic beards and burqas
The most striking scene in Nick Broomfield's powerful 2007 film Battle for Haditha is not one of violence but a simple love scene. A...
Medically assisted procreation on the rise
Medically assisted procreation (MAP) is on the increase. And according to an international study, between 219,000 and 246,000 children are born worldwide thanks to...
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...
Paris: Presentation of the World Social Science Report 2010 on 25 June 2010 at UNESCO Headquarters
Social science from Western countries continues to have the greatest global influence, but the field is expanding rapidly in Asia and Latin America, particularly...
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...
French government officials “deplore” Frances action on Western Sahara human rights
Today (30th April 2010) a cross-party group of 40 French government representatives joined with French civil society leaders in condemning the attempt by...
Ivory Coast: Call for justice reiterated on sixth anniversary of journalist’s disappearance
News conferences were held simultaneously in Paris and Abidjan on 15 April 2010 to mark the sixth anniversary of Franco-Canadian journalist Guy-André Kieffer's disappearance...
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...
First Studies of Fossil of new Human Ancestor Take Place at the European Synchrotron
Prof. Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand (South
Africa) has discovered a new species of early human ancestor in one of the
best-preserved skeletons...
Ethiopia: France donates 400,000 euro for nutrition programmes in Ethiopia
The Government of France today donated 400,000 Euro to support nutrition programmes being implemented by the Ethiopian Ministry of Health in partnership with UNICEF.
The...