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RC Strasbourg eyes Zimbabwean footballer Evans Chikwaikwai
Another Zimbabwean soccer player could find himself plying his trade in France. NJUBE Sundowns star striker Evans Chikwaikwai is on trials with French Ligue...
Rebel hijackers release hostages and insist on proceeding to Paris
According to reports from the Libyan press agency, all passengers aboard a hijacked Sudanese aircraft which landed in Libya for refueling were freed, Wednesday...
African air travel to cost more as Air France prepares to apply “zero commission” policy
14 African countries, represented by The Federation of Travel Agencies, openly expressed their non-acceptance of an Air France “zero commission” deadline from January 2009,...
Toward a New Paradigm for Law and Religion
The continued vitality of religion has motivated many scholars in sociology, anthropology, political theory, international relations, and philosophy to revisit their assumptions about how...
Rwanda accuses late French president François Miterrand and top French politicians of facilitating genocide
Rwanda is preparing to indict members of the French political and military establishment over their alleged complicity in the country’s 1994 genocide after it...
Mbeki defends cautious line over Mugabe
Thabo Mbeki, president of South Africa, has defended his cautious approach to the Zimbabwe crisis in talks with European Union leaders determined to weaken...
Mbeki at first SA-EU summit in France
South African President Thabo Mbeki is expected in France Friday where he will attend the first European Union-South Africa summit, official sources announced.
Shortly on...
Football : Moumouni Dagano gets transfer from FC Sochaux to Qatar
Burkinabe international Moumouni Dagano is leaving FC Sochaux for Qatar after three seasons in the French premier league club, sports s o urces said...
Anti Halal Pornography on Canal Satellite
The pornographic film shown the first Saturday of every month on Canal+ has become the target of “terrorist” threats for some weeks now. The...
Terrorism : A stroke of luck for the Tunisian torturer ?
The independence of the justice system is not guaranteed in Tunisia. Right to defence are minimized as all proceedings rules are continually defied. Anouar...
French national gets 12 year prison term in Mauritius for smuggling drugs
A Mauritian tribunal Monday sentenced a French national, Lionnel Chamboolle, 60, to 12 years in prison and a US$ 7200 fine for the possession...
President Levy Mwanawasa’s state of health still an issue?
The Zambian government insisted today that President Levy Mwanawasa was alive - denying media reports he had died in a Paris hospital - and...
Zambian gov’t spokesman says President Levy Mwanawasa is alive and accuses BBC and SKY news
Zambias chief government spokesman Mike Mulongoti has refuted international media reports that President Levy Mwanawasa is dead, saying the president is well and alive....
Did Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa die in Paris ?
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa, who was evacuated to Paris, France, for specialist treatment, as announced by Vice President Rupiah Banda Tuesday night, is reported...
Zambian President flown to Paris after suffering a stroke in Egypt
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa has been evacuated to Paris, France, for specialist treatment, Vice President Rupiah Banda announced Tuesday night. Banda said in a...
Thuram : A heart too big for football but good for politics
The news cut like a knife : Lilian Thuram cannot play for Paris Saint Germain (PSG) due to a cardiaque enlargement -- an increase...
South African rugby player Bakkies could appeal for French move
South Africa Springbok world cup winner lock Bakkies Botha looks to be staying at the Blue Blues after being denied a French...
Ben Arfa signs with OM, Thuram warms up to PSG
After weeks of uncertainties the Ben Arfa drama has come to an end. The young french international of Tunisian descent has been transferred to...
Four Frenchmen kidnapped in Niger
Four French expatriates, working in Niger, were abducted Sunday by people suspected to be members of the Movement of Nigeriens for Justic e (MNJ),...
Dysentery bacteria discovery marks research breakthrough
Researchers at INSERM in France recently discovered that Shigella, a
bacterium responsible for causing acute intestinal inflammation, destroys
our immune defences.
This is an important discovery...
Egyptian film director Youssef Chahine in a coma
Legendary Egyptian film director Youssef Chahine was airlifted to France Monday after slipping into a coma as a result of brain hemorrhage, Khaled Yussef,...
Security accord signed by Mauritius and France
Mauritius and France on Saturday signed an agreement in the French capital, Paris, covering security and civilian protection. Official sources in Port-Louis said on...
Nigerian President promises increase in oil production
Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua said Thursday in Paris that his administration would work to raise Nigeria's crude oil production capacity from the current 2...
France to help Sudan investigate plane crash
France on Wednesday offered to send a team of investigators to Khartoum to help the Sudanese authorities find the cause of Tuesday's plane crash...
Football : Cameroon Olympic Team meets Japan
The Olympic team of the Indomitable Lions of Cameroons left France Saturday night, for Japan. While in the land of the rising sun, the...
Yves Saint Laurent’s ashes to be kept in Marrakech Morocco
The ashes of the late french international designer, 71 year old Yves Saint Laurent, who passed away Sunday evening in Paris, will be kept...
Train and Bus crash kills children in France
At least five children were killed when a train run into a school bus in a French town, Allinges near the French Alps and...
Yves Saint Laurent kicks the bucket
Yves Saint Laurent, the international fashion legend passed away Saturday in Paris, France, his business partner and longtime friend Pierre Berger, announced.
Yves Saint Laurent...
Football : Morocco’s Amine Erbate Amine signs with Olympique de Marseille
Moroccan footballer Amine Erbate is set to play for French side Olympique of Marseille for the next three years, the French premier league side...
U.S: Joakim Noah caught for drug possesion
Joakim Noah has been arrested last Sunday at Gainesville (Florida, United States) with some weed and for non-respect of the local legislation regarding public...