Burkina Faso’s military government announced on Friday that it is severing diplomatic relations with France, accusing Paris of acting against the country’s interests and of supporting armed groups operating across the Sahel region. The decision marks the most dramatic escalation yet in the junta’s confrontation with its former colonial ruler. An end to formal ties […]
The head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday that the global risk stemming from the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo remains low, even as France reported its first case linked to the flare-up. The statement comes amid heightened international attention to cross-border disease surveillance and the capacity of
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Two-time champions France open their 2026 World Cup Group I campaign against Senegal on Tuesday in New York, with Mbappe and Dembele in the squad.
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Niger’s military-controlled regulator, the National Communication Observatory (ONC), has ordered the immediate suspension of nine France-based media organisations, in what press freedom groups are calling one of the most sweeping media crackdowns in recent African history. The affected outlets include some of the most recognisable names in international journalism: AFP news agency, France 24, Radio
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France enacts landmark legislation to simplify the return of colonial-era artworks to Africa. The law removes a decades-old parliamentary hurdle and opens the door to mass restitutions.
French President Emmanuel Macron is in Nairobi for the landmark Africa Forward Summit, co-hosted with Kenya on May 11–12, in what signals a dramatic shift in France’s engagement with Africa — away from Francafrique and toward genuine partnership.
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The void left by France’s military withdrawal from the Sahel has filled with something far more dangerous than a strategic vacuum — it has filled with armed men. Three years after Paris began winding down its counter-terrorism operations across Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, the ideological and operational space once held by French forces has
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Bamako | April 15, 2026 When Mali’s military junta formally ended its security partnership with France in 2022 and expelled French troops, it set in motion one of the most consequential realignments in modern African security politics. The successor arrangement — a deepening relationship with Russia’s Africa Corps — has transformed the military landscape of
South Africa has been uninvited from the G7 summit scheduled to take place in France, in a move that has sent shockwaves through African diplomatic circles and ignited a fierce debate about the treatment of the continent at the world’s most powerful tables.
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South Africa has been uninvited from the G7 summit scheduled to take place in France, in a move that has sent shockwaves through African diplomatic circles and ignited a fierce debate about the treatment of the continent at the world’s most powerful tables.
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South Africa has been uninvited from the G7 summit scheduled to take place in France, in a move that has sent shockwaves through African diplomatic circles and ignited a fierce debate about the treatment of the continent at the world’s most powerful tables. A Sudden and Unprecedented Decision The disinvitation, confirmed by the Élysée Palace
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