Helicopter crash in Kenya kills defence chief and nine senior officers, says president
Kenya's defence chief and nine other senior military officers died in a helicopter crash on Thursday, President William Ruto announced.
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Burkina Faso expels three French diplomats accused of 'subversive activities'
Burkina Faso has expelled three French diplomats for "subversive activities", according to a foreign ministry note seen by FRANCE 24 on Thursday.
'Human-induced' climate change caused deadly Sahel heatwave, says study
The deadly heatwave that hit Africa's Sahel region in early April would not have occurred without "human-induced" climate change, according to a study by the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group published Thursday.
UN's Libya envoy Bathily resigns citing stalled political progress
The UN's special envoy for Libya said Tuesday he had tendered his resignation, saying the world body could not successfully support the country's political transition as its leaders had put their own interests above finding a solution.
UN secures over $600 million to tackle Ethiopia's 'critical' humanitarian crisis
Countries on Tuesday pledged more than $610 million to address the "critical" humanitarian situation in Ethiopia, where more than 21 million people need aid and a dire food crisis is deepening.
‘Humanitarian aid in Sudan is constantly being blocked by all the belligerents’
With the international community having pledged more than €2 billion in funding for Sudan at a humanitarian conference in Paris on Monday, Norwegian Refugee Council Sudan Advocacy Manager Mathilde Vu breaks down the worsening humanitarian crisis...
France hosts aid conference for Sudan a year into 'forgotten' war
France is hosting an international conference on Sudan on Monday, exactly a year after war broke out in the northeast African country, leading to a humanitarian and political crisis.
A decade after Chibok kidnappings, Nigeria struggles to halt child abductions
Jihadist group Boko Haram kidnapped 276 schoolgirls on the night of April 14, 2014, from a school in Chibok, some 80 of whom have never been freed. Hundreds more children have since been abducted, with the Nigerian government seemingly powerless...
Russian military instructors, air defence system arrive in Niger amid deepening ties
Russian military instructors have arrived in Niger with an air defence system and other equipment as part of the West African nation’s deepening security ties with Moscow, state television announced late Thursday.
Hunting down genocide suspects: With the Franco-Rwandan couple seeking justice
Thirty years ago, more than 800,000 people were killed during the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda. Among them were several dozen members of Dafroza Gauthier's family. A few months later, the young woman and her French husband decided to track...
South African athlete Oscar Pistorius struggles to find work after prison release
Former Paralympic champion and convicted killer Pistorius has struggled to find work.
Togo schedules delayed legislative elections for April 29
Togo has rescheduled legislative elections for April 29 after delaying the ballot over a highly contested constitutional reform, a government statement said on Tuesday.
Senegal’s democratic transition ‘sends positive message to other regimes’, says French FM Séjourné
At the end of a three-day tour that took him successively to Kenya, Rwanda and Ivory Coast, France's Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné spoke to FRANCE 24 and RFI about relations with Rwanda, reform of the CFA franc, France's military presence in...
NGO seeks a probe into the deaths of two French officers slain in Rwanda genocide
A non-governmental organisation on Monday sought answers over the deaths of two French officers killed in the early days of the 1994 Rwanda genocide, a legal complaint seen by AFP showed.
Dozens killed as boat sinks off north coast of Mozambique
More than 90 people died when an overcrowded makeshift ferry sank off the north coast of Mozambique, local authorities said on Sunday.
16,000 kilometers and 352 days later, British man Russ Cook reaches his goal of running the length of Africa
Almost a year, Russ Cook completed the mammoth effort.
Rwanda marks the 30th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsis
Rwanda on Sunday paid solemn tribute to genocide victims, 30 years after a vicious campaign orchestrated by Hutu extremists tore apart the country, as neighbours turned on each other in one of the bloodiest massacres of the 20th century.
Genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda: how historians reckon with the horror
Rwanda will begin commemorating 30 years on Sunday since the 1994 genocide that left 800,000 people dead, most of them from the Tutsi ethnic minority. For three decades, researchers have been investigating what happened, carefully detailing...
The general who tried to wake the world up to Rwanda genocide
From the Amanpour Archive, the general who returned from Rwanda a bitter and broken man, when the world ignored his calls to avert mass genocide.
Senegal's youngest-ever president appoints 'breakaway' government
Senegal’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye named a “breakaway” government on Friday, appointing a host of fresh faces to top roles following his landslide election win last month.
First UN food supplies arrive in Sudan's Darfur after months, millions still face acute hunger
The United Nations said Friday it has begun distributing food in Sudan’s restive western Darfur region for the first time in months, following two successful cross-border deliveries in March, but the population still faces widespread hunger unless...