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South Africa Trade Unions threaten France for apology
A member South Africa’s Young Communist League was sent back to South Africa from France as he arrived in the French capital to attend...
Madagascar: AU against reinforcement of illegality, but Paris maintains its support
Jean Ping, chairman of the African Union Commission, Wednesday urged African countries and their partners to "refrain from any actions likely to reinforce the...
Chad: French assassin soldier a victim of the African sun?
Not a lot has been made of the 27-year-old French soldier of Brazilian origin who went on a killing spree in Chad on Tuesday....
Fighting Nazism with Racism: A worrying discovery
General Charles De Gaulle wanted the liberation of Paris in 1944 to be seen as a french only affair. The allied forces agreed to...
French ship hijacked by Somali pirates
According to the NGO Ecoterra International, a french yacht was captured Saturday in the Indian Ocean by Somali pirates. No confirmation could be obtained...
Sudan: Gov’t doing its best to free kidnapped aid workers
A Canadian and a French national, serving humanity in Darfur, under the Aide Medicale Internationale (AMI) agency have been kidnapped by Islamic Gunmen, at...
Football: Top 20 earners list released in France
An African International is among the ten best paid players in the French Premier League. The Ivorian Kader Keita, of the Olympic Lyon (OL),...
France gets Ivory Coast relief package through IMF
With an immense support from France, the Ivory Coast has been set Debt Free by the International Monetary Fund. The sum of $3...
Football: France-Lithuania, Rio Mavuba replaces Abou Diaby
Midfielder Abou Diaby of Arsenal will not be part of the French 2010 World Cup qualifier team to play against Lithuania on Wednesday at...
Football: Stéphane Dalmat in police custody
French footballer, Stéphane Dalmat, 30, a former PSG footballer and current captain of FC Sochaux (L1) was arrested Monday morning and taken into police...
Madagascar suspended by the SADC
The 15 member countries forming the Southern African Development Community (SADC), backed by France, have asked the new strong man of Antananarivo to hand...
France to exploit DRC uranium Sarkozy promises change
France has become the latest country to go hunting in the resource wealth of DR Congo. Areva, a French nuclear firm has moved to...
Football: Zidane’s son may soon play for Spanish national team
Enzo Zidane, the son of the former French international, Zinédine Zidane, is expected to play for the Spanish national team soon. The fourteen year...
Congolese shot dead in Mexico
A national of the Democratic Republic of the Congo was killed and his companion injured Wednesday, in Mexico, by unknown men who fired on...
Madagascar: France claims not to have favoured Rajoelina
Paris has "did not favour" the change of power in Madagascar, Alain Joyandet, Secretary of State for Cooperation, said Tuesday, TV5 reported. "We especially...
Football – South Africa: Henri Michel pursued by disgruntled fans
Henri Michel, a former coach of the French team, was threatened Sunday by supporters of Mamelodi Sundowns after the team was defeated Sport has...
Khartoum fears President Omar el-Bashir’s capture by the French
Patrick Nicoloso, France's ambassador to Sudan, was summoned, Tuesday, by Sudanese authorities after a French official spoke in favor of the international arrest warrant...
Madagascar crisis: No light at the end of the tunnel
An arrest warrant has been issued for Madagascar opposition leader, Mr Rajoelina. The ex-mayor of Antananarivo who has been at loggerheads with the country's...
French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, French Justice Minister, Rachida Dati… receive death threats
French President, Nicolas Sarkozy and nine other ministers including the French Justice Minister, Rachida Dati have received death threats as well as a 9...
Gabon – France: Bank accounts of Gabonese President, Omar Bongo, frozen in France
Gabon: Bank accounts belonging to Omar Bongo Ondimba, President of Gabon, with over a four million euro deposit, has been frozen in France, the...
West backs trans-Sahara pipeline to counter Russian monopoly
Total, the French oil major, said on Wednesday that it was ready to participate in a planned Trans-Saharan gas pipeline, seen by European governments...
Football: French Minister supports Mensah’s racist suit
A French football supporter who racially abused John Mensah, Ghanaian international currently playing for Olympique Lyonnais (OL), during a match against Le Havre, was...
The TF Gospel Singers’ Workshop in Paris, France
Personifying the very essence of gospel music, as way of life more than just a singing workshop, TF Gospel Singers’ Workshop has established itself...
French chopper crash in Gabon not blamed on weather
A military training session between Gabonese and French troops in Gabon struck disaster struck as a military helicopter carrying about eleven French soldiers crashed...
Mali agrees to French immigration quota
Mali and France will soon work out a balanced agreement on immigration, which will be of benefit to both countries, the French embassy said...
A trial in France for Benin international footballer Jocelyn Ahoueya
Benin international defender Jocelyn Ahoueya on Tuesday began a trial with French first division football club FC Lorient, the club has announced. Ahoueya has...
France reminds Gabon of bilateral agreement orders Libreville to allow lawyer into the country
France on Tuesday asked Gabon to comply with a bilateral judicial agreement between them following its decision not to allow a French lawyer into...
No lawyer for the Gabonese who launched a legal complaint against Bongo
A French lawyer, Thierry Lévy, who was expected in Gabon, Wednesday, to defend his client, Gregory Ngbwa Mintsa, accused of oral and written propaganda...
France lauds exemplary Ghanaian democracy
The spokesman of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Eric Chevallier, Monday commended the transparency and consistency of the presidential elections in Ghana, noting...
Rwandan government official released by French authorities
Chief of protocol for the Rwandan government, Rose Kabuye, who was arrested last month under an international warrant, issued by a French judge, in...