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Le ministre français des Affaires étrangères, Laurent Fabius, a entamé jeudi 26 juillet une tournée ouest-africaine qui doit le mener en deux jours du Niger au Tchad, en passant par le Burkina faso et le Sénégal. Avec pour but de s'entretenir de la crise...

Plusieurs dizaines d'opposants cubains, dont Guillermo Fariñas, prix Sakharov 2010 du Parlement européen, ont été arrêtés mardi lors des obsèques du dissident Oswaldo Paya, décédé dimanche dans un accident de voiture controversé, ont constaté des journalistes...

Ghana's President John Atta Mills, who was suffering from throat cancer, has died in hospital in the capital, Accra. A statement from his office said the 68-year-old died a few hours after being taken ill, but did not give details. John Dramani Mahama,...

The International Court of Justice on Friday ordered Senegal to prosecute the former president of Chad, Hissène Habré, who has lived comfortably for two decades in Senegal despite indictments in connection with political killings, torture and a host of...

Chinese President Hu Jintao has offered $20bn (£12bn) in loans to African countries over the next three years, boosting a relationship that has been criticised by the west and given Beijing growing access to the resource-rich continent. The loans offered...

Google has launched a text message-based version of its email service targeted at users in Africa. Gmail SMS can run on so-called "dumb phones" which only have very basic features and no access to the internet. The service has so far been made available...

L'Afrique du Sud a souhaité mercredi un joyeux 94e anniversaire à son héros Nelson Mandela, chacun étant invité à multiplier les bonnes actions en hommage à l'altruisme du premier président noir du pays. Les festivités ont commencé dans toutes les écoles...

C'est la fin d'un bras de fer qui durait depuis six mois. Les chefs d'Etat africains réunis à Addis-Abeba pour le sommet de l'Union africaine ont élu ce dimanche soir, 15 juillet, le nouveau président de la Commission de l'UA. La ministre sud-africaine...

A prominent Ethiopian journalist and blogger has been sentenced to 18 years in jail for violating the country's anti-terrorism legislation. Eskinder Nega and 23 others were found guilty last month. They were accused of links with US-based opposition group...

Sylvia Owori is examining the photos for the summer collection, but she isn't satisfied. "Much too much oil on the skin," she says, pointing to a young woman. "We want to show off the dress, not her legs." A click of the mouse, and the candidate is out...

Togo's prime minister and government have resigned, according to a statement on national television and radio, but no reason was given for their stepping down. A statement issued late on Wednesday said that President Faure Gnassingbe had accepted Prime...

Senegal's capitol city Dakar sticks out into the Atlantic Ocean on a peninsula. It's at least a thousand miles to the Sahara desert yet the air today is so thick with sand that the tops of buildings disappear in a sandy haze. It's the worst sand storm...

Un rapport de l'UNESCO soutient que la création d'une agence africaine d'information scientifique améliorerait la couverture médiatique des questions scientifiques et établirait des liens plus solides entre les médias et les chercheurs. Selon un rapport...

L'émissaire international Kofi Annan a reconnu qu'il n'avait «pas réussi» sa mission, son plan étant resté lettre morte en Syrie, où les violences ont fait 60 morts samedi, et plaidé pour un rôle de l'Iran dans la résolution de la crise. Le conflit a...

Libyans have started voting in the first parliamentary election since the fall of the longtime dictator Muammar Gaddafi last year. Saturday's vote for a 200-seat legislature is being held amid intense regional rivalries, fears of violence and calls for...