Africa

Paul Taylor is a contributing editor at POLITICO. PARIS — The bigger the humiliation, the more grandiloquent the relaunch.  After a year that saw French forces conducting counterinsurgency operations against...

Submarine fiber-optic cables traversing oceans and connecting the African continent have fast emerged as a geopolitical hotspot for the West. As of late, U.S. foreign policy has been captivated by...

TUNIS, Tunisia – In Bhar Lazreg, a poor neighbourhood in Tunis’ northern suburbs, Abdoulaye, originally from Guinea, is among thousands of Black migrants fearing for their safety.  Abdoulaye, who we...

After several days of relative calm, fighting erupted on Monday in the flashpoint province of North Kivu, leaving several civilians dead and injured, hospital sources and aid workers said. The...

As FRANCE 24’s terrorism expert Wassim Nasr explains, it took a year from requesting the interview to securing the responses, with the militant leader imposing “many conditions” including the submission...

Nortje played a major role in South Africa’s 87-run win in the first Test in Centurion as part of a four-pronged pace attack, taking five for 36 in the first...

Thousands marched through Tunis on March 4 chanting “freedom, freedom, down with the police state” and “stop impoverishment”. Protesters were called on by the country’s main trade union, the UGTT,...

Kidnappings are common in Mali, which has been battling a security and political crisis since jihadist and separatist insurgencies broke out in the north of the country in 2012. Jihadists...

“Right now, we are afraid to go out for a walk like we used to,” says Patrick*, a Congolese 29-year-old who arrived in Tunisia six months ago to study international...

The air bridge will link with Goma, the capital of DR Congo‘s eastern North Kivu province, where fighting with the rebel group M23 has displaced more than 600,000 people. The...