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The knock on the door is a sign of bad things to come. "Do you have any work?" they ask. They have fled their villages and come into the city out of desperation. Their bellies ache from hunger. "For those of us in the city, we are seeing the first signs...

Hundreds and hundreds of antigovernment protesters braved scattered gunfire from Syrian soldiers to march through a middle-class neighborhood in Damascus on Saturday, the biggest demonstration witnessed close to the heart of the capital since the country’s...

Les ministres des Affaires étrangères des cinq pays de l’Union pour le Maghreb arabe, l'UMA, se réunissent ce 18 février à Rabat, en vue de relancer le processus d'intégration socio-économique de ce groupement. L'UMA, dont le processus d'intégration est...

Senegalese police clashed Friday night with protesters, firing tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse them from downtown Dakar, where protests have been banned. The unrest was part of the opposition against the candidacy of President Abdoulaye Wade ahead...

German President Christian Wulff has announced his resignation, after prosecutors called for his immunity to be lifted. An ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel, Mr Wulff is embroiled in a scandal over a home loan that he accepted when he was premier of Lower...

Les dirigeants de la Communauté économique des Etats d'Afrique de l'Ouest (Cédéao) ont entamé hier, jeudi 16 février, à Abuja, capitale du Nigeria, un sommet consacré notamment à l'insécurité dans le Sahel, la piraterie dans le golfe de Guinée et l'élection...

The world must develop different indicators on sustainable development that are not biased against developing countries, a major conference has heard. Bharrat Jagdeo, former president of Guyana, said current assessments and rankings use indicators such...

An apparent attempted bombing in Bangkok Tuesday lent greater credence to the belief that Iran lies behind a wave of bombings apparently directed at Israeli targets. A series of explosions in the centre of the Thai capital led police to two men, identified...

Des Libyens ont célébré jeudi, dans la ville de Benghazi, le premier anniversaire de la manifestation à l'origine de la révolte populaire qui a conduit au renversement du dictateur Mouammar Kadhafi. Selon l'Agence France-Presse, des dizaines de Libyens...

Kadir took a bullet himself not five months ago, and his leg still drags a bit. Now his nephew Hasim has been shot, as well: three bullets to his shoulder and upper body a little less than 20 hours ago. Kadir carried his nephew on his back, a 41-year-old...

Le jeune Nigérian qui a tenté de faire sauter le vol Amsterdam-Detroit en cachant des explosifs dans ses sous-vêtements le jour de Noël 2009, a été condamné jeudi à la prison à perpétuité par une juge américaine à Detroit. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 25...

Two Ugandan cabinet ministers resigned over corruption allegations on Thursday, bringing to six the number of ministers who have quit under a cloud following a string of graft scandals to hit President Yoweri Museveni's administration. The two were forced...

Trois leaders du collectif Sénégalais de jeunes "Y’en a marre" ont été arrêtés jeudi à Dakar, à la veille de nouvelles manifestations de l'opposition. Trois leaders du Mouvement du 23 juin (M23), parmi lesquels les rappeurs Simon et Kilifeu, ont été arrêtés...

Trois leaders du collectif de jeunes artistes Y'en a marre, parmi lesquels Sinan et Kilifeu, ont été arrêtés, jeudi 16 février, à Dakar alors qu'ils tentaient de participer à un rassemblement interdit par le gouvernement sur la place de l'Obélisque. De...

The UN General Assembly has voted in favour of a resolution condemning human rights violations in Syria and calling for an end to the violence. The Arab-backed initiative, which also calls on President Bashar al-Assad to resign, is the latest of several...