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The party of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi said she had led it to a landslide election victory Sunday, setting the stage for her to take public office for the first time and head a small opposition bloc in the military-dominated parliament. As results...

Bashar al-Assad has been warned to implement a UN-backed peace plan to end more than a year of violence in Syria, amid growing scepticism at the lack of international resolve to tackle the bloodiest crisis of the Arab spring. Hillary Clinton, the US secretary...

The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has nominated its deputy chairman, Khairat al-Shatir, as its candidate for the presidential elections in May. The choice of Mr Shatir, the group's financier, reverses a pledge made earlier by the group's leaders not to...

Ce dimanche 1er avril à la mi-journée, les rebelles touaregs du MNLA sont entrés dans Tombouctou, dernière ville du Nord du Mali encore contrôlée par l'armée malienne, après s'être emparés samedi de la ville de Gao. Dans un communiqué, le Mouvement national...

L'Afrique doit approfondir la recherche sur le paludisme, mais en se concentrant sur ce qu'elle maîtrise le mieux et non en singeant la recherche occidentale, conseille Linda Nordling. Aujourd’hui, les chercheurs africains participent davantage à la recherche...

WHICH way will African politics go? The way of Senegal, where the president conceded electoral defeat on March 25th to a younger rival, extending a democratic tradition unbroken since independence in 1960? Or is nearby Mali a more troubling bellwether?...

The Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has met Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran ahead of fresh nuclear talks between Iran and world's major powers. The meeting with the Iranian president was held behind closed doors, but the regime's nuclear programme...

Le capitaine Amadou Sanogo, chef de la junte militaire qui a pris le pouvoir au Mali, a sollicité une aide étrangère, vendredi 30 mars. Cette aide doit faire face à l'offensive touareg dans le Nord, où la situation est selon lui "critique". Selon des...

Rebels in Mali have captured the northern town of Kidal, just a week after the military seized power saying the army needed more equipment to fight the insurgents. A rebel spokesman told the BBC they were in charge of the town, which local residents confirm....

Le président de la République de Maurice, Anerood Jugnauth, en conflit avec le Premier ministre, a annoncé ce vendredi 30 mars sa démission, qui prendra effet samedi, précisant qu'il allait rejoindre l'opposition. C’est ouvertement pour s’engager dans...

Les dirigeants des cinq plus importantes puissances émergentes réunies au sein du BRICS - Brésil, Russie, Inde, Chine, Afrique du Sud - ont ouvert jeudi leur quatrième sommet à New Delhi, en Inde. La présidente du Brésil Dilma Rousseff, le Russe Dimitri...

It's campaign season in Burma, but the scenes unfolding along the seemingly endless road between Rangoon and Mawlamyine, 300 kilometers (188 miles) to the southeast, suggest a quasi-religious expectation of salvation, not unlike the response to the Dalai...

The recent upheavals in Africa – including the military coup in Mali, the uprising in Libya and a spate of terrorist attacks in Nigeria – have one thing in common: they are all helping to fuel the growing crisis in the Sahel. For a sense of the scale...

Plusieurs milliers de personnes ont marché mercredi à Bamako pour soutenir la junte militaire qui a renversé il y a six jours le président malien Amadou Toumani Touré (ATT) et avec laquelle s'esquissait un possible compromis sur une transition avant des...

Uganda's leading opposition leader was released on bail by a court in the capital after being charged in connection with violent anti-government protests that led to the death of a police officer, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Kizza Besigye, a former...